Zalonema

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Desmodoroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Cycloneuralia Cladus: Nematoida Phylum: Nematoda Classis: Chromadorea Ordo: Desmodorida Superfamilia: Desmodoroidea

Familia: Desmodoridae
Subfamilia: Desmodorinae
Genus: Zalonema
Species: Z. cylindribucca – Z. ditlevseni – Z. eurysbucca – Z. granda – Z. iranicum – Z. kamchatkaensis – Z. maldivensis – Z. mariae – Z. megalosoma – Z. myrianae – Z. propinqua – Z. sesokoensis – Z. supplementorum – Z. vicentei

Name

Zalonema Cobb, 1920: 272

Type species: Zalonema nudum Cobb, 1920 (= synonym of Desmodora megalosoma Steiner, 1918)

Synonyms

Heterodesmodora Micoletzky, 1924

References

Cobb, N.A. 1920. One hundred new nemas (type species of 100 new genera). Contributions to a science of nematology 9: 217–343. BHL Reference page.
Chen, Y-Z. & Guo, Y-Q. 2025. Two new nematode species of the genus Zalonema (Desmodorida, Desmodoridae, Desmodorinae) from mangrove wetlands, China. ZooKeys 1260: 195–211. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1260.164776 Reference page.
Fadeeva, N., Mordukhovich, V. & Zograf, J.K. 2016. Free-living marine nematodes of Desmodorella and Zalonema (Nematoda: Desmodoridae) with description of two new species from the deep sea of the North Western Pacific. Zootaxa 4175(6): 501–520. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.6.1. Reference page.