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Odontophora Bütschli, 1874

Nematode file-library of the Marine Biology Section (Ghent University, Belgium)

2418  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2418)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Nematoda (Phylum)
  4. Chromadorea (Class)
  5. Chromadoria (Subclass)
  6. Araeolaimida (Order)
  7. Axonolaimoidea (Superfamily)
  8. Axonolaimidae (Family)
  9. Odontophora (Genus)
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  1. Species Odontophora angustilaima (Filipjev, 1918) Allgén, 1929
  2. Species Odontophora armata (Ditlevsen, 1918) Allgén, 1929
  3. Species Odontophora articulata Keppner, 1988
  4. Species Odontophora atrox Leduc & Zhao, 2016
  5. Species Odontophora bermudensis Jensen & Gerlach, 1976
  6. Species Odontophora brevispicula Keppner, 1988
  7. Species Odontophora carrolli Keppner, 1988
  8. Species Odontophora deconincki Galtsova, 1976
  9. Species Odontophora exharena Warwick & Platt, 1973
  10. Species Odontophora falcifera Ott, 1972
  11. Species Odontophora fatisca Vitiello, 1971
  12. Species Odontophora furcata Wieser, 1956
  13. Species Odontophora lituifera Wieser, 1959
  14. Species Odontophora longicaudata Schuurmans Stekhoven & De Coninck, 1933
  15. Species Odontophora longisetosa (Allgén, 1928)
  16. Species Odontophora mercurialis Wieser, 1959
  17. Species Odontophora mucronata Wieser, 1959
  18. Species Odontophora octoseta Boucher & Helléouet, 1977
  19. Species Odontophora odontophoroides Shimada, Suzuki, Tsujimoto, Imura & Kakui, 2021
  20. Species Odontophora ornata Lorenzen, 1971
  21. Species Odontophora paravilloti Blome, 1982
  22. Species Odontophora peritricha Wieser, 1956
  23. Species Odontophora phalarata Lorenzen, 1971
  24. Species Odontophora polynesiae Boucher, 1973
  25. Species Odontophora rectangula Lorenzen, 1971
  26. Species Odontophora regalia Nichols & Musselman, 1979
  27. Species Odontophora serrata Hourston & Warwick, 2010
  28. Species Odontophora setosa (Allgén, 1929)
  29. Species Odontophora setosoides Timm, 1954
  30. Species Odontophora sinapophysis Pinto & Neres, 2020
  31. Species Odontophora spiculodentata Pastor De Ward, 1984
  32. Species Odontophora tenuicaudata Allgén, 1935
  33. Species Odontophora urothrix Gerlach, 1957
  34. Species Odontophora variabilis Wieser & Hopper, 1967
  35. Species Odontophora villoti Luc & De Coninck, 1959
  36. Species Odontophora wieseri Luc & De Coninck, 1959
  37. Species Odontophora angustilaimus (Filipjev, 1918) accepted as Odontophora angustilaima (Filipjev, 1918) Allgén, 1929 (lapsus - Allgén 1929)
  38. Species Odontophora breviseta Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950 accepted as Parodontophora breviseta (Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950)
  39. Species Odontophora diegoensis Allgén, 1951 accepted as Parodontophora diegoensis (Allgén, 1951) Timm, 1963
  40. Species Odontophora intermedia (Allgén, 1929) accepted as Odontophora armata (Ditlevsen, 1918) Allgén, 1929
  41. Species Odontophora minor (Ditlevsen, 1918) Allgén, 1929 accepted as Odontophora armata (Ditlevsen, 1918) Allgén, 1929
  42. Species Odontophora pacifica Allgén, 1947 accepted as Parodontophora pacifica (Allgén, 1947) Timm, 1963 (see Timm, 1963)
  43. Species Odontophora paragranulifera (Timm, 1952) accepted as Parodontophora paragranulifera (Timm, 1952) (see Timm, 1963)
  44. Species Odontophora quadristicha Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950 accepted as Parodontophora quadristicha (Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950) Timm, 1963
  45. Species Odontophora angustilaimoides Chitwood, 1951 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, see Wieser & Hopper 1967)
  46. Species Odontophora axonolaimoides Timm, 1954 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, see Leduc & Zhao, 2016 Odontophora review)
  47. Species Odontophora insulana Belogurov, 1978 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, see Leduc & Zhao, 2016 Odontophora review)
  48. Species Odontophora marina Bütschli, 1874 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, see De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven 1933)
  49. Species Odontophora parangustilaima Wieser, 1956 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, see Leduc & Zhao, 2016 Odontophora review)
  50. Species Odontophora parasetosa (Allgén, 1929) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, see De Coninck & Shuurmans Stekhoven 1933)
  51. Species Odontophora paratenuicaudata Allgén, 1942 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, see Wieser 1956, 1959)
  52. Species Odontophora polaris (Cobb, 1914) Wieser, 1956 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, see De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1933)
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Bütschli, O. (1874). Zur Kenntnis der freilebenden Nematoden, insbesondere der des Kieler Hafens. <em>Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft.</em> 9: 1-56.
page(s): 49 [details] OpenAccess publication
Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Odontophora Bütschli, 1874. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2418 on 2025-07-17
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Nomenclature

original description Bütschli, O. (1874). Zur Kenntnis der freilebenden Nematoden, insbesondere der des Kieler Hafens. <em>Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft.</em> 9: 1-56.
page(s): 49 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Conolaimus Filipjev, 1918) Filipjev, I. N. (1918). Free-living marine nematodes of the Sevastopol area. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Laboratory and the Sevastopol Biological Station of the Russian Academy of Sciences.</em> Series II No 4 (Issue I & II) (Translated from Russian).
page(s): 323-324 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Trigonolaimus Ditlevsen, 1918) Ditlevsen, H. (1919). Marine freeliving nematodes from Danish waters. <em>Vidensk. Meddr. dansk naturh. Foren.</em> 70(7): 147-214., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27831477#page/179/mode/1up [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004). (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Ecology

ecology source Raes, M.; De Troch, M.; Ndaro, S. G. M.; Muthumbi, A.; Guilini, K.; Vanreusel, A. (2007). The structuring role of microhabitat type in coral degradation zones: a case study with marine nematodes from Kenya and Zanzibar. <em>Coral Reefs.</em> 26 (1): 13-126. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

ecology source Vanaverbeke, J.; Vincx, M. (2008). Short-term changes in nematode communities from an abandoned intense sand extraction site on the Kwintebank (Belgian Continental Shelf) two years post-cessation. <em>Marine Environmental Research.</em> 66(2): 240-248. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2008.02.066 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

ecology source Vanaverbeke, J.; Deprez, T.; Vincx, M. (2007). Changes in nematode communities at the long-term sand extraction site of the Kwintebank (Southern Bight of the North Sea). <em>Marine Pollution Bulletin.</em> 54(9): 1351-1360. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2007.05.019 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

ecology source Vanreusel, A., M. Vincx, D. Van Gansbeke & W. Gijselinck, W. (1992). Structural analysis of the meiobenthos communities of the shelf break area in two stations of the Gulf of Biscay (N.E. Atlantic). <em>Belgian Journal of Zoology.</em> 122(2):185-202. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Identification resource

identification resource Shimada, D.; Suzuki, A. C.; Tsujimoto, M.; Imura, S.; Kakui, K. (2021). Two New Species of Free-living Marine Nematodes (Nematoda: Axonolaimidae and Tripyloididae) from the Coast of Antarctica. <em>Species Diversity.</em> 26(1): 49-63., available online at https://doi.org/10.12782/specdiv.26.49
page(s): 54-56; note: Key to species [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

additional source Allgén, C. A. (1930). Die Arten und die systematische Stellung des Genus Conolaimus Filipjev Zoologischer. <em>Anzeiger.</em> 88: 198-209. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Various Authors (2000). Nematode filing cabinet of the Marine Biology Section Ugent - in combination with the NemasLan Ms-Access database (published on CD-Rom, 2000) (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Van Colen, C.; Montserrat, F.; Verbist, K.; Vincx, M.; Steyaert, M.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Herman, P.; Degraer, S.; Ysebaert, T. (2009). Tidal flat nematode responses to hypoxia and subsequent macrofauna-mediated alterations of sediment properties. <em>Marine Ecology Progress Series.</em> 381: 189-197. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07914 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Dando, P. R.; Austen, M. C.; Burke, Jr. R. A.; Kendall, M. A.; Kennicutt, II M. C.; Judd, A. G.; Moore, D. C.; O'Hara, S. C. M.; Schmaljohann, R.; Southward, A. J. (1991). Ecology of a North Sea pockmark with an active methane seep. <em>Marine Ecology Progress Series.</em> 70: 49-63. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source De Jesús-Navarrete, A. (2007). Nematodos de los arrecifes de Isla Mujeres y Banco Chinchorro, Quintana Roo, México. <em>Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía.</em> 42(2): 193 – 200. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Mahmoudi, E.; Essid, N.; Beyrem, H.; Hedfi, A.; Boufahdja, F.; Aïssa, P.; Vitiello, P. (2008). Mussel-farming effects on Mediterranean benthic nematode communities. <em>Nematology.</em> 10 (3): 323-333. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Miljutin, D. M.; Gad, G.; Miljutina, M. M.; Mokievsky, V. O.; Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Esteves, A. M. (2010). The state of knowledge on deep-sea nematode taxonomy: how many valid species are known down there?. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 40(3): 143-159., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-010-0041-4 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Soetaert, K.. M. Vinckx, J. Wittoeck & M.Tulkens. (1995). Meiobenthic distribution and nematode community structure in five European estuaries. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 311: 185-206. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Venekey, V.; Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Santos, P. J. P. (2010). Biodiversity of free-living marine nematodes on the coast of Brazil: a review. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2568: 39–66. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
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