Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Enoplea > Subclass Enoplia > Order Enoplida > Suborder Oncholaimina > Superfamily Oncholaimoidea > Family Oncholaimidae > Subfamily Oncholaimellinae

Viscosia de Man, 1890

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mononcholaimus*	Kreis, 1924	synonym

Children

Viscosia abyssorum (Allgén, 1933) Wieser, 1953
Viscosia brachylaima Filipjev, 1927
Viscosia brevidentata (Vitiello, 1967) Lorenzen, 1981
Viscosia cobbi Filipjev, 1918
Viscosia coomansi Smol & Sharma, 1984
Viscosia diodon (Wieser, 1951) Lorenzen, 1981
Viscosia elegans (Kreis, 1924) Lorenzen, 1981
Viscosia elongata Filipjev, 1922
Viscosia filipjevi Paramonov, 1929
Viscosia franzii Boucher, 1977
Viscosia glabra (Bastian, 1865) de Man, 1890
Viscosia hanstroemi Wieser, 1953
Viscosia heterolaima Smol & Sharma, 1984
Viscosia langrunensis (de Man, 1890)
Viscosia longicaudata
Viscosia macramphida Chitwood, 1951
Viscosia macrorhopalocerca Kreis, 1932
Viscosia megalaima (Ditlevsen, 1928) Hope & Murphy, 1972
Viscosia minor Filipjev, 1918
Viscosia minudonta Vitiello, 1970
Viscosia palmae Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1942
Viscosia papillosa (Eberth, 1863) Kreis, 1934
Viscosia parva Kreis, 1929
Viscosia rustica (Kreis, 1929) Lorenzen, 1974
Viscosia separabilis (Wieser, 1953) Lorenzen, 1981
Viscosia stenolaima Filipjev, 1927
Viscosia viscosa (Bastian, 1865) de Man, 1890

Literature

basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
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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	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.
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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.
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ecology source	Vanaverbeke, J.; Deprez, T.; Vincx, M. (2007). Changes in nematode communities at the long-term sand extraction site of the Kwintebank (Southern Bight of the North Sea). Marine Pollution Bulletin. 54(9): 1351-1360.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys
NeMys
NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Viscosia de Man, 1890. 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:2570