Leptonchus
creator: Vanaverbeke, Jan
creator: Holovachov, Oleksandr
creator: Peña Santiago, Reyes
date: 2026-08-02
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Leptonchus Cobb, 1920
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: Nemys eds. (2026). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Leptonchus Cobb, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=582955 on 2026-08-02
created: 2011-10-24T10:22:04Z
modified: 2024-08-04T07:39:46Z
replaces: 1656877
rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Leptonchus Cobb, 1920
class: Enoplea
family: Leptonchidae
genus: Leptonchus
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Cobb, N. A. (1920). One hundred new nemas (type species of 100 new genera). Contributions to a science of nematology. 9: 217-343.
name published in: Khan, S. H. (1974). Taxonomic notes on the family Leptonchidae Thorne, 1935, with a proposal for Neoleptonchus n. g. (Nematoda: Leptonchoidea). Abstracts XII International Symposium of the European Society of Nematology, Granada, Spain. September 1-7, 1974: pp. 44-45.
name published in year: 1920
name published in year: 1974
order: Dorylaimida
parent name usage ID: 1477279
phylum: Nematoda
scientific name authorship: Cobb, 1920
taxon rank: Genus
taxonomic status: accepted