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Nemys taxon details
Prionchulus muscorum
(Dujardin, 1845) Cobb, 1916
AphiaID
583914
(urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:583914)
Classification
Biota
Animalia
(Kingdom)
Nematoda
(Phylum)
Enoplea
(Class)
Dorylaimia
(Subclass)
Mononchida
(Order)
Mononchina
(Suborder)
Mononchoidea
(Superfamily)
Mononchidae
(Family)
Prionchulinae
(Subfamily)
Prionchulus
(Genus)
Prionchulus muscorum
(Species)
Status
accepted
Rank
Species
Parent
Prionchulus
Cobb, 1916
Original name
Oncholaimus muscorum
Dujardin, 1845
Synonymised names
Mononchus (Prionchulus) longicollis
Cobb, 1917
· unaccepted >
junior subjective synonym
Mononchus (Prionchulus) muscorum
(Dujardin, 1845) Bastian, 1865
·
unaccepted
Mononchus bastiani
de Man, 1876
· unaccepted >
junior subjective synonym
Mononchus muscorum
(Dujardin, 1845) Bastian, 1865
·
unaccepted
Mononchus papillatus macrodon
Fuchs, 1930
· unaccepted >
junior subjective synonym
Oncholaimus muscorum
Dujardin, 1845
·
unaccepted
Prionchulus ferox
Winiszewska & Susulovsky, 2003
· unaccepted >
junior subjective synonym
Prionchulus medius
Eroshenko, 1975
· unaccepted >
junior subjective synonym
Prionchulus pachydermis
Khan, Choi, Lee & Choi, 2000
· unaccepted >
junior subjective synonym
Prionchulus paucidentatus
Zell, 1985
· unaccepted >
junior subjective synonym
Prionchulus prasadi
Saha, Lal & Singh, 2006
· unaccepted >
junior subjective synonym
Prionchulus ukhrum
Mohilal & Dhanachand, 1997
· unaccepted >
junior subjective synonym
Environment
marine
,
brackish
, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range
recent only
Original description
(of
Oncholaimus muscorum
Dujardin, 1845
)
Dujardin, F. (1845). Histoire naturelle des helminthes ou vers intestinaux. <em>Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret. Paris.</em> xvi + 654 + 15 pp., pls. 1-12.
,
available online at
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10123
page(s): 237
[details]
Taxonomic citation
Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes.
Prionchulus muscorum
(Dujardin, 1845) Cobb, 1916. Accessed at: https://www.nemys.ugent.be/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=583914 on 2026-04-04
Taxonomic edit history
Date
action
by
2011-10-24 13:56:25Z
created
Vanaverbeke, Jan
2016-10-25 19:55:57Z
changed
Eisendle, Ursula
2016-11-09 15:26:01Z
changed
Holovachov, Oleksandr
2018-09-12 06:07:05Z
changed
Eisendle, Ursula
2020-11-23 00:49:37Z
changed
Melo da Silva, Débora Cristina
2021-12-27 10:22:37Z
changed
Eisendle, Ursula
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Sources (3)
Attributes (1)
Links (4)
original description
(of
Oncholaimus muscorum
Dujardin, 1845
)
Dujardin, F. (1845). Histoire naturelle des helminthes ou vers intestinaux. <em>Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret. Paris.</em> xvi + 654 + 15 pp., pls. 1-12.
,
available online at
https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10123
page(s): 237
[details]
taxonomy source
Ahmad, W.; Jairajpuri, M. S. (2010). Mononchida: the predatory soil nematodes. <em>Brill.</em> (Vol. 7). 298 pp.
,
available online at
https://books.google.com/books?id=J60K2G18gW0C
[details]
Available for editors
[request]
additional source
Andrássy, I. (1990). Free-living nematoda in the Hungarian fauna. <em>Állattani Közlemények.</em> LXXVI: 17-38.
[details]
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[request]
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Definitions
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Prionchulus muscorum)
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To ITIS
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