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

Tricoma Cobb, 1894

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Tricoma (Quadricoma) (Filipjev, 1922)
Tricoma adelpha (Greeff, 1869)
Tricoma apophysis Soetaert & Decraemer, 1989
Tricoma bacescui (Paladian & Andriescu, 1963)
Tricoma bathycola Freudenhammer, 1975
Tricoma bergensis (Schepotieff, 1907)
Tricoma brevirostris (Southern, 1914)
Tricoma cincta Cobb, 1894
Tricoma corsicana Soetaert & Decraemer, 1989
Tricoma duopapillata Soetaert & Decraemer, 1989
Tricoma elongata (Panceri, 1878)
Tricoma globulosa Kreis, 1934
Tricoma islandica Kreis, 1963
Tricoma latispicula Soetaert & Decraemer, 1989
Tricoma litoralis (Allgén, 1934)
Tricoma lobata Juario, 1974
Tricoma longirostris (Southern, 1914)
Tricoma maxima (Schepotieff, 1907)
Tricoma nematoides (Greeff, 1869)
Tricoma norvegica (Schepotieff, 1907)
Tricoma pellucida Allgén, 1935
Tricoma platycephala Filipjev, 1922
Tricoma polydesma (Southern, 1914)
Tricoma profunda (Schepotieff, 1907)
Tricoma pygmaea Soetaert & Decraemer, 1989
Tricoma septuaginta Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1942
Tricoma setosa Soetaert & Decraemer, 1989
Tricoma steineri de Man, 1922
Tricoma strandi (Allgén, 1939)
Tricoma tripapillata Soetaert & Decraemer, 1989
Tricoma vincxae Soetaert & Decraemer, 1989

Literature

original description	Cobb, N. A. (1894). Tricoma and other nematode genera. The proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Second Series). Vol. VIII, 389-421 -With 28 plates.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
additional source	Shirayama, Y.; Ohta, S. (1990). Meiofauna in a cold-seep community off Hatsushima, central Japan. Journal of the Oceanographical Society of Japan. 46(3): 118-124.
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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Van Gaever, S.; Galéron, J.; Sibuet, M.; Vanreusel, A. (2009). Deep-sea habitat heterogeneity influence on meiofaunal communities in the Gulf of Guinea. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 56(23): 2259-2269.
additional source	Decraemer, W.; Sturhan, D. (1982). A new terrestrial desmoscolecid, Desmolorenzenia montana (Nematoda, Desmoscolecida). Nematologica. 27(4): 357-365.
additional source	Van Gaever, S.; Raes, M.; Pasotti, F.; Vanreusel, A. (2009). Spatial scale and habitat-dependent diversity patterns in nematode communities in three seepage related sites along the Norwegian Sea margin. Marine Ecology. 31(1): 66-77.
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	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	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)
additional source	Van Gaever, S.; Vanreusel, A.; Hughes, J.; Bett, B.; Kiriakoulakis, K. (1999). The macro- and micro-scale patchiness of meiobenthos associated with the Darwin Mounds (north-east Atlantic). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK. 84(3): 547-556.
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	Timm, R. W. (1965). A preliminary survey of the plant parasitic nematodes of Thailand and the Philippines. Thai Sambhand Printing Press, Fuang Nakorn Road, Bangkok. 62-64.
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	Van Gaever, S.; Moodley, L.; De Beer, D.; Vanreusel, A. (2006). Meiobenthos at the Arctic Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano, with a parental-caring nematode thriving in sulphide-rich sediments. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 321: 143-155.
additional source	Decraemer, W. (1979). Taxonomic problems within the Desmoscolecida (Nematoda). Ann. Soc. Roy. Zool. Bel. 108(1-2): 9-16.
additional source	Danovaro, R.; Dell'Anno, A.; Pusceddu, A. (2004). Biodiversity response to climate change in a warm deep sea. Ecology Letters. 7(9): 821-828.
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	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	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	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.
taxonomy source	Lim, H. W.; Chang, C. Y. (2005). Tricoma (Quadricoma) jindoensis, a New Species of Marine Interstitial Nematoda (Desmoscolecida: Desmoscolecidae) from Jindo Island, Korea. The Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology, special issue. 5:61-70.
taxonomy source	Lim, H. W.; Lee, J. M.; Chang, C. Y. (2005). Two new marine nematodes of subgenus Quadricoma (Desmoscolecida: Desmoscolecidae: Tricoma) from Korea. Integrative biosciences. 9, A632.
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., 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.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Tricoma Cobb, 1894. 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:2379