Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Araeolaimida > Superfamily Axonolaimoidea > Family Comesomatidae > Subfamily Comesomatinae

Paracomesoma Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Paracomesoma dubium (Filipjev, 1918) Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950
Paracomesoma longispiculum (Timm, 1961) Hopper, 1967

Literature

original description	Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr. (1950). The freeliving marine nemas of the Mediterranean: I. The Bay of Villefranche. Mémoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, deuxième série = Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique: Bruxelles. 2(37): 1-220.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
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	Da Rocha, C. M. C.; Venekey, V.; Bezerra, T. N. C.; Souza, R. B. (2006). Phytal marine nematode assemblages and their relation with the macrophytes structural complexity in a Brazilian tropical rocky beach. Hydrobiologia. 553:219-230.
additional source	Mahmoudi, E.; Essid, N.; Beyrem, H.; Hedfi, A.; Boufahdja, F.; Aïssa, P.; Vitiello, P. (2008). Mussel-farming effects on Mediterranean benthic nematode communities. Nematology. 10 (3): 323-333.
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	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.
taxonomy source	Jensen, P. (1979). Revision of Comesomatidae (Nematoda). Zoologica Scripta. 8(2): 81-105.
taxonomy source	Riera, R.; Nunez, J.; Brito M.D.C. (2006). Two new species of Comesomatidae Filipjev, 1922 (Nematoda: Chromadorida) from sandy bottoms of Tenerife, Canary Islands. Zootaxa. 1126: 53–61.
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.
identification resource	Huang, M.; Shi, B.; Wang, C.; XU, K. (2021). Two new species of nematodes from shallow and deep-water sediments in the South China Sea. Zootaxa. 5016(4): 490-502.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Paracomesoma Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950. 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:2427