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Adoncholaimus fuscus (Bastian, 1865) 
AphiaID: 122122

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Nematoda (Phylum) > Adenophorea (Class) > Enoplia (Subclass) > Enoplida (Order) > Enoplina (Suborder) > Oncholaimoidea (Superfamily) > Oncholaimidae (Family) > Adoncholaiminae (Subfamily) > Adoncholaimus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Adoncholaimus Filipjev, 1918
Sources  original description: Bastian, H. C. (1865): Monograph of the Anguillulidae, or Free Nematoids, Marine, Land, and Freshwater; with Descriptions of 100 New Species The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Volume XXV. Part II:73-184 [details]

basis of record: De Smet, G.; Vincx, M.; Vanreusel, A.; Vanhove, S.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Steyaert, M. (2001). Nematoda - free living, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 161-174 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Hopper, B.E. 1969. Marine nematodes of Canada. II. Marine nematodes from the Minas Basin-Scots Bay area of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Zoology 47: 671-690.  [details]

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) [details]

additional source: Deprez, T. & al. (2005). NeMys. World Wide Web electronic publication. , available online at http://nemys.ugent.be/ [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Environment marine
Distribution Adriatic Sea [details]
Baltic sea [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North Atlantic [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Oostende [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Westerschelde [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To NeMys
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nematoda Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: bacteria, fungi and other nematodes [details]

Dimensions: Length: male 3.98-5.30 mm, female 5.08-5.54 mm; Maximum width: 110-162 microns; Head: 37-40 microns [details]

Distribution: Recorded: Middle Europe, Scandinavia; Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Kingsport and Avenport, Nova Scotia [details]

Habitat: free-living or bottom dwelling [details]

Importance: useful in determining environmental quality [details]

Reproduction: separate sexes; fertilization internal, eggs may be retained until hatching. Young appear as juvenile worms (not larvae). Male of this species has 20 pairs of minute caudal papillae present on conoid portion of tail. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:122122
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Vincx, Magda
  
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  Citation: Vincx, M. (2013). Adoncholaimus fuscus (Bastian, 1865). In: Deprez, T. et al. (2005). NeMys. World list of free-living nematodes. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=122122 on 2013-05-21
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