Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Chromadorida > Suborder Chromadorina > Superfamily Chromadoroidea > Family Chromadoridae > Subfamily Euchromadorinae

Graphonema Cobb, 1898

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Protochromadora*	Inglis, 1969	synonym

Children

Graphonema mediterranea (Allgén, 1942) Warwick & Coles, 1975
Graphonema northumbriae Warwick & Coles, 1975
Graphonema scampae (Coles, 1965) Warwick & Coles, 1975

Literature

original description	Cobb, N. A. (1898). Australian free-living marine nematodes. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (91) 23 (3): 383-407.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
additional source	Gobin, J. F. (2007). Free-living marine nematodes of hard bottom substrates in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. Bulletin of Marine Science. 81(1): 73–84.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Blome, D. (2002). Five new genera of free-living marine nematodes from sandy beaches of Eastern Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 48(1):29-43 Brisbane ISSN 0079-8835.
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. Zootaxa. 2568: 39–66.
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)
ecology source	Fonsêca-Genevois, V.da., P.J. Somerfield, M.H. Baeta-Neves, R. Coutinho & T. Moens. (2006). Colonization and early succession on artificial hard substrata by meiofauna. Marine Biology 148(5):1039-1050.
identification resource	Shimada, D.; Tsujimoto, M.; Watanabe, K. (2019). A New Free-living Marine Nematode Species of the Genus Graphonema (Nematoda: Chromadorida: Chromadoridae) from Antarctica. Species Diversity. 24(1): 61-67.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Graphonema Cobb, 1898. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2287