Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Desmoscolecida > Suborder Desmoscolecina > Superfamily Desmoscolecoidea > Family Desmoscolecidae > Subfamily Desmoscolecinae > Tribe Desmoscolecini

Desmoscolex Claparède, 1863

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Eudesmoscolex*	Steiner, 1916	synonym
*Eutricoma*	Allgén, 1939	synonym

Children

Desmoscolex (Desmolorenzenia) Freudenhammer, 1975
Desmoscolex (Desmoscolex) Claparède, 1863
Desmoscolex (Pareudesmoscolex) Weischer, 1962
Desmoscolex abyssorum Decraemer, 1984
Desmoscolex adenotrichus Lorenzen, 1969
Desmoscolex adriaticus Schepotieff, 1907
Desmoscolex amaurus Lorenzen, 1972
Desmoscolex americanus Chitwood, 1936
Desmoscolex annulatus Schepotieff, 1907
Desmoscolex aquaedulcis Stammer, 1935
Desmoscolex asetosus Decraemer, 1975
Desmoscolex balticus Lorenzen, 1971
Desmoscolex bathyalis Freudenhammer, 1975
Desmoscolex borealis Kreis, 1963
Desmoscolex californiensis Gerlach & Riemann, 1973
Desmoscolex chaetogaster Greeff, 1869
Desmoscolex coronatus Soetaert, 1989
Desmoscolex decraemerae Soetaert, 1989
Desmoscolex dussarti Juget, 1969
Desmoscolex falcatus Lorenzen, 1972
Desmoscolex fennicus Lorenzen, 1969
Desmoscolex labiosus Lorenzen, 1969
Desmoscolex laevis Kreis, 1928
Desmoscolex lanuginosus Panceri, 1878
Desmoscolex lemani Juget, 1969
Desmoscolex macrophasmatus Decraemer, 1984
Desmoscolex membranifer Soetaert, 1989
Desmoscolex minor Schepotieff, 1907
Desmoscolex minutus Claparède, 1863
Desmoscolex nanellus (Allgén, 1939)
Desmoscolex parabyssorum Soetaert, 1989
Desmoscolex paralongisetosus Decraemer, 1983
Desmoscolex petalodes Lorenzen, 1972
Desmoscolex proboscis Lorenzen, 1972
Desmoscolex pusillus Lorenzen, 1969
Desmoscolex roscoffiensis Decraemer, 1979
Desmoscolex tenuiseta Filipjev, 1922
Desmoscolex vanoyei De Coninck, 1943
Desmoscolex variabilis Soetaert, 1989
Desmoscolex vinealis Weischer, 1962

Literature

original description	Claparède, A. R. É. (1863). Beobachtungen über Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte wirbelloser Thiere: an der Küste von Normandie angestellt. [Observations on the anatomy and evolution of invertebrates: made on the coast of Normandy.]. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. 1-120, 18 plates.
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	Decraemer, W.; Sturhan, D. (1982). A new terrestrial desmoscolecid, Desmolorenzenia montana (Nematoda, Desmoscolecida). Nematologica. 27(4): 357-365.
additional source	Sebastian, S.; Raes, M.; De Mesel, I.; Vanreusel, A. (2007). Comparison of the nematode fauna from the Weddell Sea Abyssal Plain with two North Atlantic abyssal sites. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 54(16-17): 1727-1736.
additional source	Gallucci, F.; Fonseca, G.; Soltwedel, T. (2008). Effects of megafauna exclusion on nematode assemblages at a deep-sea site. Deep-sea Research I. 55 (3): 32-349.
additional source	Verschelde, D.; Nicholas, W.; Vincx, M. (2006). A Review of the Genera Croconema Cobb, 1920 and Pseudochromadora Daday, 1899 (Nematoda, Desmodoroidea): New Species from the Coasts of Kenya and Australia. Hydrobiologia. 571, 17-40.
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?. Marine Biodiversity. 40(3): 143-159.
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	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. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 70: 49-63.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Danovaro, R.; Gambi, M. C.; Dell'Anno, A.; Corinaldesi, C.; Fraschetti, S.; Vanreusel, A.; Vincx, M.; Gooday, A. J. (2008). Exponential decline of deep-sea ecosystem functioning linked to benthic biodiversity loss. Current Biology. 18(1): 1-8 + supplemental data: S1-S6; 1-16.
additional source	Danovaro, R.; Gambi, C.; Lampadariou, N.; Tselepides, A. (2008). Deep-sea nematode biodiversity in the Mediterranean basin: testing for longitudinal, bathymetric and energetic gradients. Ecography. 31(2): 231-244.
additional source	Shirayama, Y. (1992). Studies of meiofauna collected from the Iheya Ridge during the dive 541 of the "SHINKAI 2000". Proc. JAMSTEC symp. deep Sea Research. 8, 287-291.
additional source	Vanaverbeke, J., K. Soetaert, C. Heip & A. Vanreusel. (1997). The metazoan meiobenthos along the continental slope of the Goban Spur (NE Atlantic). Journal of Sea Research. 38:93-107.
additional source	Decraemer, W. (1979). Taxonomic problems within the Desmoscolecida (Nematoda). Ann. Soc. Roy. Zool. Bel. 108(1-2): 9-16.
additional source	Steyaert, M.; Moodley, L.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Vandewiele, S.; Vincx, M. (2005). Laboratory experiments on the infaunal activity of intertidal nematodes. Hydrobiologia. 540(1-3): 217-223.
additional source	Van Gaever, S.; Olu, K.; Derycke, S.; Vanreusel, A. (2009). Metazoan meiofaunal communities at cold seeps along the Norwegian margin: Influence of habitat heterogeneity and evidence for connection with shallow-water habitats. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 56(5): 772-785.
additional source	Decraemer, W. (1975). Scientific report on the Belgian expedition to the great Barrier Reef in 1967. Nematodes I : Desmoscolex-species (Nematoda - Desmoscolecida) from yonge reef, Lizard Island and Nymphe Island with general characteristics of the Genus Desmoscolex. Annales de la Société royale Zoologique de Belgique. 104, 105-130.
additional source	Vanreusel, A.; Fonseca, G.; Danovaro, R.; Da Silva, M. C.; Esteves, A. M.; Ferrero, T.; Gad, G.; Galtsova, V.; Gambi, C.; Da Fonsêca Genevois, V.; Ingels, J.; Ingole, B.; Lampadariou, N.; Merckx, B.; Miljutin, D.; Miljutina, M.; Muthumbi, A.; Netto, S.; Portnova, D.; Radziejewska, T.; Raes, M.; Tchesunov, A.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Van Gaever, S.; Venekey, V.; Bezerra, T. N.; Flint, H.; Copley, J.; Pape, E.; Zeppilli, D.; Martinez, P. A.; Galeron, J. (2010). The contribution of deep-sea macrohabitat heterogeneity to global nematode diversity. Marine Ecology. 31(1): 6-20.
additional source	Fonseca, G.; Soltwedel, T.; Vanreusel, A.; Lindegarth, M. (2010). Variation in nematode assemblages over multiple spatial scales and environmental conditions in Arctic deep seas. Progress in Oceanography. 84 (3-4): 174-184.
additional source	Buhl-Mortensen, L.; Vanreusel, A.; Gooday, A. J.; Levin, L. A.; Priede, I. G.; Buhl-Mortensen, P.; Gheerardyn, H.; King, N. J.; Raes, M. (2010). Biological structures as a source of habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity on the deep ocean margins. Marine Ecology. 31: 21-50.
additional source	Hwang, U. W.; Choi, E. H.; Kim, D. S.; Decraemer, W.; Chang, C. Y. (2009). Monophyly of the family Desmoscolecidae (Nematoda, Demoscolecida) and Its Phylogenetic position inferred from 18S rDNA sequences. Molecules and Cells. 27(5): 515-523.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
taxonomy source	Rho, H. S.; Kim, W.; Chang, C. Y. (2007). Description of two new free‐living marine nematode species of the subgenus Desmolorenzenia (Desmoscolecida, genus Desmoscolex ) from Korea. Journal of Natural History. 41(5-8): 313-326.
ecology source	Leduc, D.; Probert, P.; Nodder, S. (2010). Influence of mesh size and core penetration on estimates of deep-sea nematode abundance, biomass, and diversity. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 57(10): 1354-1362.
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. Coral Reefs. 26 (1): 13-126.
ecology source	Ingels, J.; Vanhove, S.; De Mesel, I.; Vanreusel, A. (2006). The biodiversity and biogeography of the free-living nematode genera Desmodora and Desmodorella (family Desmodoridae) at both sides of the Scotia Arc. Polar Biology. 29(11): 936-949.
ecology source	Ingels, J., K. Kiriakoulakis, G.A. Wolff & A. Vanreusel. (2009). Nematode diversity and its relation to the quantity and quality of sedimentary organic matter in the deep Nazaré Canyon, Western Iberian Margin. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 56(9): 1521-1539.
ecology source	Raes, M.; Vanreusel, A. (2006). Microhabitat type determines the composition of nematode communities associated with sediment-clogged cold-water coral framework in the Porcupine Seabight (NE Atlantic). Deep-Sea Research Part I. 53 (12): 880-1894.
ecology source	Decraemer, W. (1974). Scientific report on the Belgian expedition to the Great Barrier Reef in 1967. Nematodes II. Desmoscolex-species (Nematoda-Desmoscolecida) from Yonge Reef, Lizard Island and Nymphe Island. Zoologica Scripta. 3: 167-176.
ecology source	Decraemer, W. (1975). Scientific Report on the Belgian expedition to the Great Barrier reef in 1967. Nematodes III : further study of desmoscolex - species (Nematoda-Desmoscolecida) from Yonge Reef, Lizard Island and Nymphe Island. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 16: 269-284.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys
NeMys
NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Desmoscolex Claparède, 1863. 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:2369

Dr. Vlada Peneva. Desmoscolex Claparède, 1863. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/8fa15e9b-edfd-47ee-8106-7b405fc6f276