WoRMS taxon details
Enoplus communis Bastian, 1865
121784 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:121784)
accepted
Species
Enoplus cochleatus Schneider, 1866 · unaccepted (Bütschli, 1874 p 40)
Enoplus coloratus Allgén, 1933 · unaccepted (Schuurmans-Stekhoven, 1935 p 26)
Enoplus dujardinii Bastian, 1865 · unaccepted (De Coninck &...)
De Coninck & Schuurmans-Stekhoven, 1933 p 35
Enoplus nanus Allgén, 1929 · unaccepted
Enoplus pellucidus Ditlevsen, 1926 · unaccepted
Enoplus pigmentosus Bastian, 1865 · unaccepted
marine
Bastian, H. C. (1865). Monograph of the Anguillulidae, or Free Nematoids, Marine, Land, and Freshwater; with Descriptions of 100 New Species. <em>The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> Volume XXV. Part II:73-184.
page(s): 148-149 (76-77 of pdf) [details]
page(s): 148-149 (76-77 of pdf) [details]
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary [details]
Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Enoplus communis Bastian, 1865. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=121784 on 2025-02-16
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original description
Bastian, H. C. (1865). Monograph of the Anguillulidae, or Free Nematoids, Marine, Land, and Freshwater; with Descriptions of 100 New Species. <em>The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> Volume XXV. Part II:73-184.
page(s): 148-149 (76-77 of pdf) [details]
original description (of Enoplus pigmentosus Bastian, 1865) Bastian, H. C. (1865). Monograph of the Anguillulidae, or Free Nematoids, Marine, Land, and Freshwater; with Descriptions of 100 New Species. <em>The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> Volume XXV. Part II:73-184. [details]
original description (of Enoplus cochleatus Schneider, 1866) Schneider, A. (1866). Monographie der Nematoden. Berlin: Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer. 357 pp., pls. 1-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1594473
page(s): 57-58 pl 4 [details]
original description (of Enoplus coloratus Allgén, 1933) Allgén, C. A. (1933). Freilebende Nematoden aus dem Trondhjemsfjord. <em>Capita Zoologica.</em> 4(2): 1-162. [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Enoplus dujardinii Bastian, 1865) Bastian, H. C. (1865). Monograph of the Anguillulidae, or Free Nematoids, Marine, Land, and Freshwater; with Descriptions of 100 New Species. <em>The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> Volume XXV. Part II:73-184. [details]
original description (of Enoplus nanus Allgén, 1929) Allgén, C. A. (1929). Neue freilebende marine Nematoden von der Westküste Schwedens. <em>Zoologische Jahrbucher (Systematik).</em> 57 (5): 431-496.
page(s): 440, fig 5a-c [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Enoplus pellucidus Ditlevsen, 1926) Ditlevsen, H. (1926). Free-living nematodes. <em>The Danish Ingolf Expedition.</em> 4(6): 1-42.
page(s): 33-35, pl 13 fig 5, 8-10, pl 11 fig 4 [details] Available for editors
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taxonomy source Heip, C.; Herman, R.; Vincx, M. (1983). Subtidal meiofauna of the North Sea: A review. <em>Biol. Jb. Dodonaea.</em> 51: 116-170. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
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
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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 Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr. (1942). Les nématodes libres marins du Bassin de Chasse d'Ostende [The free-living nematods of the Sluice Dock at Ostend]. <em>Med. K. Belg. Inst. Nat. Wet.</em> 18(12): 1-26. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Ditlevsen, H. (1919). Marine freeliving nematodes from Danish waters. <em>Vidensk. Meddr. dansk naturh. Foren.</em> 70(7): 147-214., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27831477#page/179/mode/1up [details]
additional source Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr. (1954). IX. Vrijlevende Nematoden. <em>Veranderingen in de Flora en Fauna van de Zuiderzee (thans Ijsselmeer) na de afsluiting in 1932.</em> 169-185. [details] Available for editors
[request]
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) (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
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
[request]
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1953). Revision der freilebenden marinen Nematoden aus der Umgebung der Staatlichen Zoologischen Station Kristineberg an der Westküste Schwedens. <em>Zoologische Jahrbucher (Systematik).</em> 81: 548-603. [details] Available for editors
[request]
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
[request]
additional source Allgén, C. A. (1946). Letzter Bericht über freilebende Nematoden aus dem Schalensand- und Kiesboden der Westküste Norwegens. <em>Arkiv for Zoologi.</em> 37 A (15): 1-26. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source De Jesús-Navarrete, A. (2007). Nematodos de los arrecifes de Isla Mujeres y Banco Chinchorro, Quintana Roo, México. <em>Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía.</em> 42(2): 193 – 200. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source de Man, J. G. (1907). Sur quelques espèces nouvelles ou peu connues de nématodes libres habitant les côtes de la Zélande. <em>Mém. Soc. zool. Fr.</em> 20: 33-90., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10132057#page/37/mode/1up [details]
additional source Fricke, H.; Giere, O.; Stetter, K.; Alfredsson, G. A.; Kristjansson, J. K.; Stoffers, P.; Svavarsson, J. (1989). Hydrothermal vent communities at the shallow subpolar mid-Atlantic ridge. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 102: 425-429., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00428495 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Gerlach, S. A. (1954). Die freilebenden Nematoden der schleswig-holsteinischen Küsten. <em>Schr. naturw. Ver. Schlesw.-Holst.</em> 27: 44-69. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Lorenzen, S. (1974). Die Nematodenfauna der sublitoralen Region der Deutschen Bucht, insbesondere im Titan-Abwassergebiet bei Helgoland. <em>Veröff. Inst. Meeresforsch. Bremerh.</em> 14: 305-327. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr. (1935). Freeliving Marine Nemas of the Belgian Coast. I. and II. <em>Mém. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg.</em> 72: 1-36. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Tietjen, J. H.; Lee, J. J.; Rullman, J.; Greencart, A.; Trompeter, J. (1970). Gnotobiotic culture and physiological ecology of the marine nematode Rhabditis marina Bastian. <em>Limnol. Oceanogr.</em> 15: 535-543. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Wieser, W. (1960). Benthic studies in Buzzards Bay II. The meiofauna. <em>Limnology and Oceanography.</em> 5 (2): 121-137., available online at https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.1960.5.2.0121 [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Wieser, W.; Kanwisher, J. (1960). Growth and metabolism in a marine nematode, Enoplus communis Bastian. <em>Z. vergl. Physiol.</em> 43: 29-36. [details] Available for editors
[request]
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
[request]
additional source Ssaweljev, S. (1912). Zur Kenntnis der freilebenden Nematoden des Kolafjords und des Relictensee Mogilnoje. <em>Travaux de la Société (Impériales) des Naturalistes de Saint-Petersbourg.</em> 42(2-3): 108-126. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Coomans, A. V. (1989). Overzicht van de vrijlevende nematofauna van België (Nematoda). [The freeliving nematofauna of Belgium: a review.]. <em>In Wouters, K.; Baert, L. (Ed.): Invertebraten van België = Invertébrés de Belgique: Verhandelingen van het Symposium "Invertebraten van België" = Comptes rendus du Symposium "Invertébrés de Belgique" = Proceedings of the Symposium "Invertebrates of Belgium". Brussel, 25-26 november 1988. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussel, Belgium.</em> 43-56. (look up in IMIS) [details]
ecology source Wieser, W. (1952). Investigations on the microfauna inhabiting seaweeds on rocky coasts. (Untersuchungen über die algenbewohnende Mikrofauna mariner Hartböden). IV. Studies on the vertical distribution of the fauna inhabiting seaweeds below the Plymouth Laboratory. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 31(1): 145-174, figs. 1-4, tabs. 1-12, appendix. (vi-1952)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S002531540000374X [details] Available for editors
[request]
page(s): 148-149 (76-77 of pdf) [details]
original description (of Enoplus pigmentosus Bastian, 1865) Bastian, H. C. (1865). Monograph of the Anguillulidae, or Free Nematoids, Marine, Land, and Freshwater; with Descriptions of 100 New Species. <em>The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> Volume XXV. Part II:73-184. [details]
original description (of Enoplus cochleatus Schneider, 1866) Schneider, A. (1866). Monographie der Nematoden. Berlin: Druck und Verlag von Georg Reimer. 357 pp., pls. 1-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1594473
page(s): 57-58 pl 4 [details]
original description (of Enoplus coloratus Allgén, 1933) Allgén, C. A. (1933). Freilebende Nematoden aus dem Trondhjemsfjord. <em>Capita Zoologica.</em> 4(2): 1-162. [details] Available for editors

original description (of Enoplus dujardinii Bastian, 1865) Bastian, H. C. (1865). Monograph of the Anguillulidae, or Free Nematoids, Marine, Land, and Freshwater; with Descriptions of 100 New Species. <em>The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> Volume XXV. Part II:73-184. [details]
original description (of Enoplus nanus Allgén, 1929) Allgén, C. A. (1929). Neue freilebende marine Nematoden von der Westküste Schwedens. <em>Zoologische Jahrbucher (Systematik).</em> 57 (5): 431-496.
page(s): 440, fig 5a-c [details] Available for editors

original description (of Enoplus pellucidus Ditlevsen, 1926) Ditlevsen, H. (1926). Free-living nematodes. <em>The Danish Ingolf Expedition.</em> 4(6): 1-42.
page(s): 33-35, pl 13 fig 5, 8-10, pl 11 fig 4 [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Heip, C.; Herman, R.; Vincx, M. (1983). Subtidal meiofauna of the North Sea: A review. <em>Biol. Jb. Dodonaea.</em> 51: 116-170. (look up in IMIS) [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 Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr. (1942). Les nématodes libres marins du Bassin de Chasse d'Ostende [The free-living nematods of the Sluice Dock at Ostend]. <em>Med. K. Belg. Inst. Nat. Wet.</em> 18(12): 1-26. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Ditlevsen, H. (1919). Marine freeliving nematodes from Danish waters. <em>Vidensk. Meddr. dansk naturh. Foren.</em> 70(7): 147-214., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27831477#page/179/mode/1up [details]
additional source Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr. (1954). IX. Vrijlevende Nematoden. <em>Veranderingen in de Flora en Fauna van de Zuiderzee (thans Ijsselmeer) na de afsluiting in 1932.</em> 169-185. [details] Available for editors

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) (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]
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 Allgén, C. A. (1953). Revision der freilebenden marinen Nematoden aus der Umgebung der Staatlichen Zoologischen Station Kristineberg an der Westküste Schwedens. <em>Zoologische Jahrbucher (Systematik).</em> 81: 548-603. [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. (1946). Letzter Bericht über freilebende Nematoden aus dem Schalensand- und Kiesboden der Westküste Norwegens. <em>Arkiv for Zoologi.</em> 37 A (15): 1-26. [details] Available for editors

additional source De Jesús-Navarrete, A. (2007). Nematodos de los arrecifes de Isla Mujeres y Banco Chinchorro, Quintana Roo, México. <em>Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía.</em> 42(2): 193 – 200. [details] Available for editors

additional source de Man, J. G. (1907). Sur quelques espèces nouvelles ou peu connues de nématodes libres habitant les côtes de la Zélande. <em>Mém. Soc. zool. Fr.</em> 20: 33-90., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10132057#page/37/mode/1up [details]
additional source Fricke, H.; Giere, O.; Stetter, K.; Alfredsson, G. A.; Kristjansson, J. K.; Stoffers, P.; Svavarsson, J. (1989). Hydrothermal vent communities at the shallow subpolar mid-Atlantic ridge. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 102: 425-429., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00428495 [details] Available for editors

additional source Gerlach, S. A. (1954). Die freilebenden Nematoden der schleswig-holsteinischen Küsten. <em>Schr. naturw. Ver. Schlesw.-Holst.</em> 27: 44-69. [details] Available for editors

additional source Lorenzen, S. (1974). Die Nematodenfauna der sublitoralen Region der Deutschen Bucht, insbesondere im Titan-Abwassergebiet bei Helgoland. <em>Veröff. Inst. Meeresforsch. Bremerh.</em> 14: 305-327. [details] Available for editors

additional source Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr. (1935). Freeliving Marine Nemas of the Belgian Coast. I. and II. <em>Mém. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg.</em> 72: 1-36. [details] Available for editors

additional source Tietjen, J. H.; Lee, J. J.; Rullman, J.; Greencart, A.; Trompeter, J. (1970). Gnotobiotic culture and physiological ecology of the marine nematode Rhabditis marina Bastian. <em>Limnol. Oceanogr.</em> 15: 535-543. [details] Available for editors

additional source Wieser, W. (1960). Benthic studies in Buzzards Bay II. The meiofauna. <em>Limnology and Oceanography.</em> 5 (2): 121-137., available online at https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.1960.5.2.0121 [details] Available for editors

additional source Wieser, W.; Kanwisher, J. (1960). Growth and metabolism in a marine nematode, Enoplus communis Bastian. <em>Z. vergl. Physiol.</em> 43: 29-36. [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 Ssaweljev, S. (1912). Zur Kenntnis der freilebenden Nematoden des Kolafjords und des Relictensee Mogilnoje. <em>Travaux de la Société (Impériales) des Naturalistes de Saint-Petersbourg.</em> 42(2-3): 108-126. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]
additional source Coomans, A. V. (1989). Overzicht van de vrijlevende nematofauna van België (Nematoda). [The freeliving nematofauna of Belgium: a review.]. <em>In Wouters, K.; Baert, L. (Ed.): Invertebraten van België = Invertébrés de Belgique: Verhandelingen van het Symposium "Invertebraten van België" = Comptes rendus du Symposium "Invertébrés de Belgique" = Proceedings of the Symposium "Invertebrates of Belgium". Brussel, 25-26 november 1988. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussel, Belgium.</em> 43-56. (look up in IMIS) [details]
ecology source Wieser, W. (1952). Investigations on the microfauna inhabiting seaweeds on rocky coasts. (Untersuchungen über die algenbewohnende Mikrofauna mariner Hartböden). IV. Studies on the vertical distribution of the fauna inhabiting seaweeds below the Plymouth Laboratory. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 31(1): 145-174, figs. 1-4, tabs. 1-12, appendix. (vi-1952)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S002531540000374X [details] Available for editors






Unreviewed
Distribution lower St. Lawrence estuary [details]Habitat infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Original description (NemasLan)
Note: species description of Enoplus communis taken from: Platt, H. M. & Warwick, R. M., 1983. Free-living Marine Nematodes. Part I: British Enoplids. Synopses of the British Fauna (New series) No. 28, Cam...
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Enoplus communis)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nematoda Collection (13 records)
To ITIS

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (41 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Enoplus communis)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nematoda Collection (13 records)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database