Family Enchelidiidae

Revised 01/03/24

Nematoda

Enoplea

Enoplia

Enoplida

Oncholaimina

Oncholaimoidea

Enchelidiidae Filipjev, 1918

As of 2014, about 7,000 species of free-living marine nematodes had been described, most from Europe, some from China and Korea (Hong and Lee, 2014).

Ref: Fonseca-Genevois et al., 2009.

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References

Andrassy, I. 2009. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary (Nematoda Errantia) Vol. 111. Humgarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. 508p.

Fonseca-Genevois, V. da, V Venekey, W  Decraemer. 2009.  Bernardius lineatus gen. n., sp. n. (Enoplida: Enchelidiidae), a remarkable nematode with ornamented cuticle from a Brazilian tropical sandy beach. Nematology 11:275-287

Hong, J-H. and Lee, W. Two new species of free-living marine nematodes (Nematoda: Oncholaimida: Enchelidiidae) from Maemul Island, Korea. Zootaxa 3785 (3): 419–437.

Smol, N. & Coomans, A. (2006) Order Enoplida. In: Eyualem, A., Andrassy, I. & Traunspurger, W. (Eds.), Freshwater nematodes: ecology and taxonomy. CABI, Wallingford, pp. 225–292

Timm, R.W. 1961. The marine nematodes of the Bay of Bengal. Proceedings of Pakistan Academy of Sciences,1:1-88

 

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