WoRCS taxon details
Draconema cephalatum (Cobb, 1913) Steiner, 1921
121042 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:121042)
accepted
Species
marine
(of ) Cobb, N. A. (1913). Draconema: A remarkable genus of marine free-living nematodes. <em>J. Wash. Acad. Sci.</em> 3 (5): 145-149. [details] 
Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Draconema cephalatum (Cobb, 1913) Steiner, 1921. Accessed through: Gerovasileiou, V.; Martínez García, A.; Álvarez Noguera, F.; Boxshall, G.; Humphreys, W.F.; Jaume, D.; Becking, L.E.; Muricy, G.; van Hengstum, P.J.; Yamasaki, H.; Bailly, N.; Iliffe, T.M. (2025) World Register of Marine Cave Species (WoRCS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/worcs/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=121042 on 2025-05-28
Gerovasileiou, V.; Martínez García, A.; Álvarez Noguera, F.; Boxshall, G.; Humphreys, W.F.; Jaume, D.; Becking, L.E.; Muricy, G.; van Hengstum, P.J.; Yamasaki, H.; Bailly, N.; Iliffe, T.M. (2025). World Register of Marine Cave Species (WoRCS). Draconema cephalatum (Cobb, 1913) Steiner, 1921. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/worcs/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=121042 on 2025-05-28
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(of ) Cobb, N. A. (1913). Draconema: A remarkable genus of marine free-living nematodes. <em>J. Wash. Acad. Sci.</em> 3 (5): 145-149. [details]
context source (WoRCS) Ape, F.; Arigò, C.; Gristina, M.; Genovese, L.;Di Franco, A.; Di Lorenzo, M.; Baiata, P.; Agliere, G.; Milisenda, G.; Mirto, S. (2016). Meiofaunal diversity and nematode assemblages in two submarine caves of a Mediterranean marine protected area. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> , available online at http://www.medit-mar-sc.net/index.php/marine/article/view/1375 [details] Available for editors
basis of record De Smet, G.; Vincx, M.; Vanreusel, A.; Vanhove, S.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Steyaert, M. (2001). Nematoda - free living. <em>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.</em> 161-174., available online at https://www.vliz.be/nl/imis?refid=26605 [details]
additional source Filipjev, I. N. (1918). Free-living marine nematodes of the Sevastopol area. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Laboratory and the Sevastopol Biological Station of the Russian Academy of Sciences.</em> Series II No 4 (Issue I & II) (Translated from Russian). [details]
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1932). Über einige freilebende marine Nematoden aus der Umgebung der Biologischen Station auf der Insel Herdla (Norweg.). Mit Anhang: Zur Richtigstellung älterer und neuerer mariner Nematodengenera I. <em>Arch. Naturgesch. (N.F.).</em> 1: 399-434. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1935). Die freilebenden Nematoden des Öresunds. <em>Capita Zoologica.</em> 6 (3): 1-192. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1943). Norwegische marine Nematoden. <em>Zoologische Jahrbucher (Systematik).</em> 76 (4): 267-322. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1950). Letzter Bericht über freilebende marine Nematoden von der Campbellinsel. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 145: 309-316. [details] Available for editors
additional source Rho, H. S.; Kim, W. (2005). A New Marine Nematode Species of the Genus Dinetia (Nematoda: Draconematidae) from South Korea. <em>Zoological Science.</em> 22(5): 599-608., available online at https://doi.org/10.2108/zsj.22.599 [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1954). Freeliving marine Nematodes from East Greenland and Jan Mayen. The Swedish Greenland-Expedition 1899. <em>Meddelelser om Gronland.</em> 107 (6): 1-44. [details] Available for editors
additional source Venekey, V.; Lage, L. M.; Da Fonseca-Genevois, V. (2005). Draconema brasiliensis and Draconema fluminensis (Chromadorida,Draconematidae): two new species of free living nematodes from a rocky shore affected by upwelling on the Brazilian coast. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1090: 51–64. [details] Available for editors
additional source Yeates, G. W. (2010). Phylum Nematoda: roundworms, eelworms. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 480-493. [details]
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1940). Weitere freilebende Nematoden insbesondere aus dem Schalensand- und Kiesboden der Strandzone Norwegens. <em>Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica.</em> 10 (2): 487-508. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1947). On some freeliving marine Nematodes from Tobago (Br. W. I.) (Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16 74). <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening.</em> 110: 45-63. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1931). Freilebende marine Nematoden aus dem Dröbakschnittes des Oslofjords. <em>Zool. Jb. (Syst).</em> 61: 211-262. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1932). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntnis der marinen Nematodenfauna der Campbellinsel. <em>Nyt Mag. Naturvid.</em> 70: 97-198. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1957). On a small collection of freeliving marine nematodes from Greenland and some other arctic regions with reviews and analyses of the compositions of all hitherto known arctic nematode faunas. <em>Meddr. Gronland.</em> 159 (3): 1- 42. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1939). Über einige im reinen Schalensand der Westküste Norwegens freilebende Nematoden. <em>Festschr. Embrik Strand (Riga).</em> 5: 404-425. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1959). Freeliving marine nematodes. Further zoological results of the Swedish Antarctic expedition, 1901-1903 under the direction of Dr. Otto Nordenskjold. V(2) P.A. Norstedt & Söner: Stockholm. 293 pp. [details] Available for editors
additional source Gadea, E. (1960). Nematodos alguicolas de las costas mediterráneas de Espana. <em>Publnes Inst. Biol. apl., Barcelona.</em> 31: 33-91. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1927). Freilebende marine Nematoden von den Campbell- und Staten-Inseln. <em>Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne.</em> 66: 249-309. [details] Available for editors
additional source Gerlach, S. A. (1965). Freilebende Meeresnematoden aus der Gezeitenzone von Spitzbergen. <em>Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven.</em> 9: 109-172. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1947). West American Marine Nematodes (Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. LXXV). <em>Vidensk. Medd. fra Dansk naturh. Foren.</em> 110: 65-219. [details] Available for editors
additional source Steiner, G. (1916). Freilebende Nematoden aus der Barentssee. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher.</em> 39: 511-664. [details]
additional source Gerlach, S. A. (1964). Freilebende Nematoden aus dem Roten Meer. <em>Kieler Meeresforsch.</em> 20 (Sonderheft): 18-34. [details] Available for editors
additional source Gerlach, S. A. (1967). Freilebende Meeres-Nematoden von den Sarso-Inseln (Rotes Meer). <em>Meteor-Forschungsergebnisse (D).</em> 2:19-43. [details] Available for editors
redescription Steiner, G. (1921). Ost-asiatische marine Nematoden. <em>Zool. Jb. (Syst.).</em> 44: 195-226. [details]
redescription Ditlevsen, H. (1915). Chaetosoma annulatum n. sp., en Repraesentant for Gruppen Nematoidea i danske Farvande. <em>Vidensk.Meddr dansk naturh. Foren.</em> 66: 197-203. [details]
redescription Allen, M. W.; Noffsinger, E. M. (1978). A revision of the marine nematodes of the superfamily Draconematoidea Filipjev, 1918 (Nematoda: Draconematina). <em>University of California Publications in Zoology.</em> Volume 109, 133 pgs. [details] Available for editors
ecology source Palacin, C. (1985). Nematodos marinos de las algas fotófilas del litoral de Menorca II. Chromadorida y Monhysterida. <em>Misc. Zool.</em> 9: 31-48. [details] Available for editors
identification resource Cobb, N. A. (1929). The ambulatory tube and other features of the nema Draconema cephalatum. <em>J. Wash. Acad. Sci.</em> 19 (**): 255-260, (reprinted in Contrib. to a Science of Nematology (Baltimore) 22: 413-418). [details] Available for editors
context source (WoRCS) Ape, F.; Arigò, C.; Gristina, M.; Genovese, L.;Di Franco, A.; Di Lorenzo, M.; Baiata, P.; Agliere, G.; Milisenda, G.; Mirto, S. (2016). Meiofaunal diversity and nematode assemblages in two submarine caves of a Mediterranean marine protected area. <em>Mediterranean Marine Science.</em> , available online at http://www.medit-mar-sc.net/index.php/marine/article/view/1375 [details] Available for editors
basis of record De Smet, G.; Vincx, M.; Vanreusel, A.; Vanhove, S.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Steyaert, M. (2001). Nematoda - free living. <em>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.</em> 161-174., available online at https://www.vliz.be/nl/imis?refid=26605 [details]
additional source Filipjev, I. N. (1918). Free-living marine nematodes of the Sevastopol area. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Laboratory and the Sevastopol Biological Station of the Russian Academy of Sciences.</em> Series II No 4 (Issue I & II) (Translated from Russian). [details]
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1932). Über einige freilebende marine Nematoden aus der Umgebung der Biologischen Station auf der Insel Herdla (Norweg.). Mit Anhang: Zur Richtigstellung älterer und neuerer mariner Nematodengenera I. <em>Arch. Naturgesch. (N.F.).</em> 1: 399-434. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1935). Die freilebenden Nematoden des Öresunds. <em>Capita Zoologica.</em> 6 (3): 1-192. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1943). Norwegische marine Nematoden. <em>Zoologische Jahrbucher (Systematik).</em> 76 (4): 267-322. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1950). Letzter Bericht über freilebende marine Nematoden von der Campbellinsel. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 145: 309-316. [details] Available for editors
additional source Rho, H. S.; Kim, W. (2005). A New Marine Nematode Species of the Genus Dinetia (Nematoda: Draconematidae) from South Korea. <em>Zoological Science.</em> 22(5): 599-608., available online at https://doi.org/10.2108/zsj.22.599 [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1954). Freeliving marine Nematodes from East Greenland and Jan Mayen. The Swedish Greenland-Expedition 1899. <em>Meddelelser om Gronland.</em> 107 (6): 1-44. [details] Available for editors
additional source Venekey, V.; Lage, L. M.; Da Fonseca-Genevois, V. (2005). Draconema brasiliensis and Draconema fluminensis (Chromadorida,Draconematidae): two new species of free living nematodes from a rocky shore affected by upwelling on the Brazilian coast. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1090: 51–64. [details] Available for editors
additional source Yeates, G. W. (2010). Phylum Nematoda: roundworms, eelworms. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 480-493. [details]
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1940). Weitere freilebende Nematoden insbesondere aus dem Schalensand- und Kiesboden der Strandzone Norwegens. <em>Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica.</em> 10 (2): 487-508. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1947). On some freeliving marine Nematodes from Tobago (Br. W. I.) (Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16 74). <em>Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening.</em> 110: 45-63. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1931). Freilebende marine Nematoden aus dem Dröbakschnittes des Oslofjords. <em>Zool. Jb. (Syst).</em> 61: 211-262. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1932). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntnis der marinen Nematodenfauna der Campbellinsel. <em>Nyt Mag. Naturvid.</em> 70: 97-198. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1957). On a small collection of freeliving marine nematodes from Greenland and some other arctic regions with reviews and analyses of the compositions of all hitherto known arctic nematode faunas. <em>Meddr. Gronland.</em> 159 (3): 1- 42. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1939). Über einige im reinen Schalensand der Westküste Norwegens freilebende Nematoden. <em>Festschr. Embrik Strand (Riga).</em> 5: 404-425. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1959). Freeliving marine nematodes. Further zoological results of the Swedish Antarctic expedition, 1901-1903 under the direction of Dr. Otto Nordenskjold. V(2) P.A. Norstedt & Söner: Stockholm. 293 pp. [details] Available for editors
additional source Gadea, E. (1960). Nematodos alguicolas de las costas mediterráneas de Espana. <em>Publnes Inst. Biol. apl., Barcelona.</em> 31: 33-91. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1927). Freilebende marine Nematoden von den Campbell- und Staten-Inseln. <em>Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne.</em> 66: 249-309. [details] Available for editors
additional source Gerlach, S. A. (1965). Freilebende Meeresnematoden aus der Gezeitenzone von Spitzbergen. <em>Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven.</em> 9: 109-172. [details] Available for editors
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1947). West American Marine Nematodes (Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. LXXV). <em>Vidensk. Medd. fra Dansk naturh. Foren.</em> 110: 65-219. [details] Available for editors
additional source Steiner, G. (1916). Freilebende Nematoden aus der Barentssee. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher.</em> 39: 511-664. [details]
additional source Gerlach, S. A. (1964). Freilebende Nematoden aus dem Roten Meer. <em>Kieler Meeresforsch.</em> 20 (Sonderheft): 18-34. [details] Available for editors
additional source Gerlach, S. A. (1967). Freilebende Meeres-Nematoden von den Sarso-Inseln (Rotes Meer). <em>Meteor-Forschungsergebnisse (D).</em> 2:19-43. [details] Available for editors
redescription Steiner, G. (1921). Ost-asiatische marine Nematoden. <em>Zool. Jb. (Syst.).</em> 44: 195-226. [details]
redescription Ditlevsen, H. (1915). Chaetosoma annulatum n. sp., en Repraesentant for Gruppen Nematoidea i danske Farvande. <em>Vidensk.Meddr dansk naturh. Foren.</em> 66: 197-203. [details]
redescription Allen, M. W.; Noffsinger, E. M. (1978). A revision of the marine nematodes of the superfamily Draconematoidea Filipjev, 1918 (Nematoda: Draconematina). <em>University of California Publications in Zoology.</em> Volume 109, 133 pgs. [details] Available for editors
ecology source Palacin, C. (1985). Nematodos marinos de las algas fotófilas del litoral de Menorca II. Chromadorida y Monhysterida. <em>Misc. Zool.</em> 9: 31-48. [details] Available for editors
identification resource Cobb, N. A. (1929). The ambulatory tube and other features of the nema Draconema cephalatum. <em>J. Wash. Acad. Sci.</em> 19 (**): 255-260, (reprinted in Contrib. to a Science of Nematology (Baltimore) 22: 413-418). [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Original description (NemasLan) 
Note: species description of Draconema cephalatum taken from: Cobb, N.A., 1913. Draconema: A remarkable genus of marine free-living nematodes.. J. Wash. Acad. Sci., 3 (5): 145-149; NeMys_picture_id: 1346
Original description (NemasLan) Note: species description of Draconema cephalatum taken from: Allen, M. W. & Noffsinger, E. M., 1978. A revision of the marine nematodes of the superfamily Draconematoidea Filipjev, 1918 (Nematoda: Dracone...
Original description (NemasLan) Note: species description of Draconema cephalatum taken from: Platt, H. M. & Warwick, R. M., 1988. Free living marine nematodes. Part II: British Chromadorids. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series). N...
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Draconema cephalatum)
To PESI
To ITIS
Note: species description of Draconema cephalatum taken from: Cobb, N.A., 1913. Draconema: A remarkable genus of marine free-living nematodes.. J. Wash. Acad. Sci., 3 (5): 145-149; NeMys_picture_id: 1346 Original description (NemasLan)
Note: species description of Draconema cephalatum taken from: Allen, M. W. & Noffsinger, E. M., 1978. A revision of the marine nematodes of the superfamily Draconematoidea Filipjev, 1918 (Nematoda: Dracone... Original description (NemasLan)
Note: species description of Draconema cephalatum taken from: Platt, H. M. & Warwick, R. M., 1988. Free living marine nematodes. Part II: British Chromadorids. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series). N... To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Draconema cephalatum)
To PESI
To ITIS
