WoRMS taxon details
Pomponema Cobb, 1917
2318 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2318)
accepted
Genus
Anaxonchium Cobb, 1920 · unaccepted (synonym (op. Lorenzen, 1972))
Cobbiacanthonchus Allgén, 1953 · unaccepted (synonym (op. Hope & Murphy, 1972))
Endolaimus Filipjev, 1922 · unaccepted
Haustrifera Wieser, 1954 · unaccepted (synonym (op. Lorenzen, 1972))
Nummocephalus Filipjev, 1946 · unaccepted (synonym, op. Lorenzen, 1972)
Parapomponema Ott, 1972 · unaccepted
Propomponema Ott, 1972 · unaccepted
- Species Pomponema ammophilum Lorenzen, 1972
- Species Pomponema astrodes Lorenzen, 1972
- Species Pomponema clavicaudatum (Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1935) Riemann, 1972
- Species Pomponema compactum Lorenzen, 1972
- Species Pomponema concinnum (Wieser, 1954) Lorenzen, 1972
- Species Pomponema coomansi Vincx, 1981
- Species Pomponema corniculata Gourbault, 1980
- Species Pomponema cotylophorum (Steiner, 1916) Lorenzen, 1972
- Species Pomponema debile Lorenzen, 1972
- Species Pomponema elegans Lorenzen, 1972
- Species Pomponema foeticolum (Ott, 1972) Huang & Zhang, 2014
- Species Pomponema golikovi Platonova, 1988
- Species Pomponema hastatum (Ott, 1972)
- Species Pomponema koesterae Jensen, 1992
- Species Pomponema lineatum (Gerlach, 1953) Wieser, 1959
- Species Pomponema litorium (Cobb, 1920) Lorenzen, 1972
- Species Pomponema longispiculum Cunha, Fonseca & Amaral, 2023
- Species Pomponema loticum Lorenzen, 1972
- Species Pomponema macrospirale (Ott, 1972)
- Species Pomponema mirabile Cobb, 1917
- Species Pomponema multipapillatum (Filipjev, 1922) Wieser, 1954
- Species Pomponema multisupplementa Huang & Zhang, 2014
- Species Pomponema polydontus Murphy, 1963
- Species Pomponema proximamphidum Tchesunov, 2008
- Species Pomponema punctata (Cobb, 1920) Luc & Deconinck, 1959
- Species Pomponema reductum Warwick, 1970
- Species Pomponema sedecima Platt, 1973
- Species Pomponema segregatum Wieser, 1959
- Species Pomponema stomachor Wieser, 1954
- Species Pomponema syltense Blome, 1974
- Species Pomponema tautraense (Allgén, 1933) Lorenzen, 1972
- Species Pomponema tesselatum Wieser & Hopper, 1967
- Species Pomponema veronicae Cidreira, Pinheiro-Junior, Venekey & De Souza Alves, 2019
- Species Pomponema websteri (Sharma & Vincx, 1982)
- Species Pomponema carinatum Riemann, 1976 accepted as Pomponema loticum Lorenzen, 1972
- Species Pomponema effilatum Boucher, 1976 accepted as Nannolaimoides effilatus (Boucher, 1976) Platt & Warwick, 1988
- Species Pomponema polydonta Murphy, 1963 accepted as Pomponema polydontus Murphy, 1963 (lapsus calami)
- Species Pomponema reducta Warwick, 1970 accepted as Pomponema reductum Warwick, 1970 (lapsus)
- Species Pomponema segregata Wieser, 1959 accepted as Pomponema segregatum Wieser, 1959 (lapsus)
- Species Pomponema cyatholaimoides (Allgén, 1929) Hope & Murphy, 1972 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Cobb, N. A. (1917). Notes on Nemas. <em>Contrib. to a Science of Nematology (Baltimore).</em> 5: 117-128. [details] 
Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Pomponema Cobb, 1917. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2318 on 2025-05-08
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Nomenclature
original description
Cobb, N. A. (1917). Notes on Nemas. <em>Contrib. to a Science of Nematology (Baltimore).</em> 5: 117-128. [details] 
original description (of Cobbiacanthonchus Allgén, 1953) 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
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original description (of Endolaimus Filipjev, 1922) Filipjev, I. N. (1922). Encore sur les Nématodes libres de la mer Noire. <em>Tr. Stravrop. Skh. Inst. Zool.</em> 1: 83-184. [details]
original description (of Haustrifera Wieser, 1954) Wieser, W. (1954). Free-living marine nematodes II. Chromadoroidea. <em>Acta Univ. lund (N.F.2).</em> 50 (16): 1-148. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Nummocephalus Filipjev, 1946) Filipjev, I. N. (1946). Свободноживущие нематоды из северного ледовитого океана = Nématodes libres du bassin polaire. <em>Trudy Dreifuiushchaiae Ekspeditsiia Glavsevmorputi na Ledokol'nom Parokhode G. Sedov 1937-1940.</em> III: 158-184. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Parapomponema Ott, 1972) Ott, J. A. (1972). Twelve New Species of Nematodes from an Intertidal Sandflat in North Carolina. Int. Rev. Ges. Hydrobiol. Hydrogr., 57 (1): 463-496 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Propomponema Ott, 1972) Ott, J. A. (1972). Twelve New Species of Nematodes from an Intertidal Sandflat in North Carolina. Int. Rev. Ges. Hydrobiol. Hydrogr., 57 (1): 463-496 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Anaxonchium Cobb, 1920) Cobb, N. A. (1920). One hundred new nemas (type species of 100 new genera). <em>Contributions to a science of nematology.</em> 9: 217-343., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18212644
page(s): 319 [details]
basis of record Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004). (look up in IMIS) [details]
new combination reference Lorenzen, S. (1972). Die Nematodenfauna im Verklappungsgebiet für Industrieabwässer nordwestlich von Helgoland: III. Cyatholaimidae, mit einer Revision von Pomponema Cobb, 1917. <em>Veröff. Inst. Meeresforsch. Bremerh.</em> 13: 285-306. [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Cobbiacanthonchus Allgén, 1953) 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

original description (of Endolaimus Filipjev, 1922) Filipjev, I. N. (1922). Encore sur les Nématodes libres de la mer Noire. <em>Tr. Stravrop. Skh. Inst. Zool.</em> 1: 83-184. [details]
original description (of Haustrifera Wieser, 1954) Wieser, W. (1954). Free-living marine nematodes II. Chromadoroidea. <em>Acta Univ. lund (N.F.2).</em> 50 (16): 1-148. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

original description (of Nummocephalus Filipjev, 1946) Filipjev, I. N. (1946). Свободноживущие нематоды из северного ледовитого океана = Nématodes libres du bassin polaire. <em>Trudy Dreifuiushchaiae Ekspeditsiia Glavsevmorputi na Ledokol'nom Parokhode G. Sedov 1937-1940.</em> III: 158-184. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

original description (of Parapomponema Ott, 1972) Ott, J. A. (1972). Twelve New Species of Nematodes from an Intertidal Sandflat in North Carolina. Int. Rev. Ges. Hydrobiol. Hydrogr., 57 (1): 463-496 [details] Available for editors

original description (of Propomponema Ott, 1972) Ott, J. A. (1972). Twelve New Species of Nematodes from an Intertidal Sandflat in North Carolina. Int. Rev. Ges. Hydrobiol. Hydrogr., 57 (1): 463-496 [details] Available for editors

original description (of Anaxonchium Cobb, 1920) Cobb, N. A. (1920). One hundred new nemas (type species of 100 new genera). <em>Contributions to a science of nematology.</em> 9: 217-343., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18212644
page(s): 319 [details]
basis of record Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004). (look up in IMIS) [details]
new combination reference Lorenzen, S. (1972). Die Nematodenfauna im Verklappungsgebiet für Industrieabwässer nordwestlich von Helgoland: III. Cyatholaimidae, mit einer Revision von Pomponema Cobb, 1917. <em>Veröff. Inst. Meeresforsch. Bremerh.</em> 13: 285-306. [details] Available for editors

Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Cidreira, G.; Pinheiro-Junior, E. P.; Venekey, V.; De Souza Alves, O. F. (2019). A new species of Pomponema Cobb, 1917 (Nematoda: Cyatholaimidae) from Northeast of Brazil, with reference to the taxonomic status of the genera <em>Parapomponema </em>Ott, 1972 and <em>Propomponema </em>Ott, 1972. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4691(1): 63-77., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4691.1.6 [details] Available for editors
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taxonomy source Huang, Y.; Zhang, Z. (2014). Review of Pomponema Cobb (Nematoda: Cyatholaimidae) with description of a new species from China Sea. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 55(2): 267-273. [details] Available for editors
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taxonomy source Huang, Y.; Zhang, Z. (2014). Review of Pomponema Cobb (Nematoda: Cyatholaimidae) with description of a new species from China Sea. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 55(2): 267-273. [details] Available for editors

Ecology
ecology source
Ingels, J., K. Kiriakoulakis, G.A. Wolff & A. Vanreusel. (2009). Nematode diversity and its relation to the quantity and quality of sedimentary organic matter in the deep Nazaré Canyon, Western Iberian Margin. <em>Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.</em> 56(9): 1521-1539. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2009.04.010 [details] 
ecology source Vanreusel, A., M. Vincx, D. Van Gansbeke & W. Gijselinck, W. (1992). Structural analysis of the meiobenthos communities of the shelf break area in two stations of the Gulf of Biscay (N.E. Atlantic). <em>Belgian Journal of Zoology.</em> 122(2):185-202. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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ecology source Vanreusel, A., M. Vincx, D. Van Gansbeke & W. Gijselinck, W. (1992). Structural analysis of the meiobenthos communities of the shelf break area in two stations of the Gulf of Biscay (N.E. Atlantic). <em>Belgian Journal of Zoology.</em> 122(2):185-202. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

Identification resource
identification resource
Jensen, P. (1992). Predatory nematodes from the deep-sea: description of species from the Norwegian Sea, diversity of feeding types and geographical distribution. <em>Cah. Biol. Mar.</em> 33: 1-23. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
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identification resource Huang, Y.; Zhang, Z. (2014). Review of Pomponema Cobb (Nematoda: Cyatholaimidae) with description of a new species from China Sea. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 55(2): 267-273. [details] Available for editors
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identification resource Huang, Y.; Zhang, Z. (2014). Review of Pomponema Cobb (Nematoda: Cyatholaimidae) with description of a new species from China Sea. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 55(2): 267-273. [details] Available for editors

Other
additional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [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) (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Da Rocha, C. M. C.; Venekey, V.; Bezerra, T. N. C.; Souza, R. B. (2006). Phytal marine nematode assemblages and their relation with the macrophytes structural complexity in a Brazilian tropical rocky beach. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 553:219-230. [details] Available for editors
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additional source Guo, Y.; Helléouet, M.-N.; Boucher, G. (2008). Spatial patterns of meiofauna and diversity of nematode species assemblages in the Uvea lagoon (Loyalty Islands, South Pacific). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 88(5), 931–940. [details] Available for editors
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additional source Zeppilli, D. & R. Danovaro (2009). Meiofaunal diversity and assemblage structure in a shallow-water hydrothermal vent in the Pacific Ocean. Aquatic Biology. 5(1):75-84., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/ab00140 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Miljutin, D. M.; Gad, G.; Miljutina, M. M.; Mokievsky, V. O.; Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Esteves, A. M. (2010). The state of knowledge on deep-sea nematode taxonomy: how many valid species are known down there?. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 40(3): 143-159., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-010-0041-4 [details] Available for editors
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additional source Van Gaever, S.; Vanreusel, A.; Hughes, J.; Bett, B.; Kiriakoulakis, K. (1999). The macro- and micro-scale patchiness of meiobenthos associated with the Darwin Mounds (north-east Atlantic). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK.</em> 84(3): 547-556., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315404009555h [details] Available for editors
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additional source Vanreusel, A.; Fonseca, G.; Danovaro, R.; Da Silva, M. C.; Esteves, A. M.; Ferrero, T.; Gad, G.; Galtsova, V.; Gambi, C.; Da Fonsêca Genevois, V.; Ingels, J.; Ingole, B.; Lampadariou, N.; Merckx, B.; Miljutin, D.; Miljutina, M.; Muthumbi, A.; Netto, S.; Portnova, D.; Radziejewska, T.; Raes, M.; Tchesunov, A.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Van Gaever, S.; Venekey, V.; Bezerra, T. N.; Flint, H.; Copley, J.; Pape, E.; Zeppilli, D.; Martinez, P. A.; Galeron, J. (2010). The contribution of deep-sea macrohabitat heterogeneity to global nematode diversity. <em>Marine Ecology.</em> 31(1): 6-20., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2009.00352.x [details] Available for editors
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additional source Venekey, V.; Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Santos, P. J. P. (2010). Biodiversity of free-living marine nematodes on the coast of Brazil: a review. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2568: 39–66. [details] Available for editors
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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 Da Rocha, C. M. C.; Venekey, V.; Bezerra, T. N. C.; Souza, R. B. (2006). Phytal marine nematode assemblages and their relation with the macrophytes structural complexity in a Brazilian tropical rocky beach. <em>Hydrobiologia.</em> 553:219-230. [details] Available for editors

additional source Guo, Y.; Helléouet, M.-N.; Boucher, G. (2008). Spatial patterns of meiofauna and diversity of nematode species assemblages in the Uvea lagoon (Loyalty Islands, South Pacific). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 88(5), 931–940. [details] Available for editors

additional source Zeppilli, D. & R. Danovaro (2009). Meiofaunal diversity and assemblage structure in a shallow-water hydrothermal vent in the Pacific Ocean. Aquatic Biology. 5(1):75-84., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/ab00140 [details] Available for editors

additional source Miljutin, D. M.; Gad, G.; Miljutina, M. M.; Mokievsky, V. O.; Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Esteves, A. M. (2010). The state of knowledge on deep-sea nematode taxonomy: how many valid species are known down there?. <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 40(3): 143-159., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-010-0041-4 [details] Available for editors

additional source Van Gaever, S.; Vanreusel, A.; Hughes, J.; Bett, B.; Kiriakoulakis, K. (1999). The macro- and micro-scale patchiness of meiobenthos associated with the Darwin Mounds (north-east Atlantic). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK.</em> 84(3): 547-556., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315404009555h [details] Available for editors

additional source Vanreusel, A.; Fonseca, G.; Danovaro, R.; Da Silva, M. C.; Esteves, A. M.; Ferrero, T.; Gad, G.; Galtsova, V.; Gambi, C.; Da Fonsêca Genevois, V.; Ingels, J.; Ingole, B.; Lampadariou, N.; Merckx, B.; Miljutin, D.; Miljutina, M.; Muthumbi, A.; Netto, S.; Portnova, D.; Radziejewska, T.; Raes, M.; Tchesunov, A.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Van Gaever, S.; Venekey, V.; Bezerra, T. N.; Flint, H.; Copley, J.; Pape, E.; Zeppilli, D.; Martinez, P. A.; Galeron, J. (2010). The contribution of deep-sea macrohabitat heterogeneity to global nematode diversity. <em>Marine Ecology.</em> 31(1): 6-20., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2009.00352.x [details] Available for editors

additional source Venekey, V.; Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Santos, P. J. P. (2010). Biodiversity of free-living marine nematodes on the coast of Brazil: a review. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2568: 39–66. [details] Available for editors




