Nemys - Heliconema africanum (Linstow, 1899)

Nemys taxon details

Heliconema africanum (Linstow, 1899)

AphiaID

990475 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:990475)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Heliconema Travassos, 1919

Original name

Spiropterina africana Linstow, 1899

Synonymised names

Proleptus africanus (Linstow, 1899) · unaccepted

Spiropterina africana Linstow, 1899 · unaccepted

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Spiropterina africana Linstow, 1899) Linstow, O. V. (1899). Nematoden aus der Berliner Zoologischen Sammlung. Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Sammlung des Museums für Naturkunde in Berlin. 1: 3-28, pls. 1-6., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnz.4830010202 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Heliconema africanum (Linstow, 1899). Accessed at: https://nemys.ugent.be/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=990475 on 2026-05-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2017-04-24 11:42:01Z

created

Boyko, Christopher B.

2017-05-10 18:39:03Z

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Boyko, Christopher B.

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original description (of Spiropterina africana Linstow, 1899) Linstow, O. V. (1899). Nematoden aus der Berliner Zoologischen Sammlung. Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Sammlung des Museums für Naturkunde in Berlin. 1: 3-28, pls. 1-6., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnz.4830010202 [details]

new combination reference Moravec, F. (2013). Redescription of Heliconema africanum (Linstow, 1899) n. comb. (Nematoda: Physalopteridae), a nematode parasite of freshwater eels (Anguilla spp.) in South Africa. Systematic Parasitology. 85: 263-269., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-013-9421-z [details] Available for editors

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