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Chilean Free-Living Marine Nematode Species List

I’m going to list the species by Families (in alphabetical order). The numbers in parenthesis are 1. the official species number (species with published descriptions based on material collected in Chile or species included in species lists of published papers. 2. Species that I have encountered in my samples but have yet to mention in a published paper. The current official total is 235 species, though there a many more unpublished, this group of web pages will be under continual review and update. The current taxonomy used and checks for name changes etc. were made using the NeMys website.

Aegialoalaimidae (0 + 0 species)

Anoplostomatidae (3 + 1 species)

Anticomidae (6 + 0 species)

Aponchidae (1 + 0 species)

Axonolaimidae (3 + 0 species)

Bodonematidae (0 + 0 species)

Camocolaimidae (3 + 1 species)

Ceramonematidae (0 + 3 species)

Chromadoridae (20 + 1 species)

Comesomatidae (29 + 2 species)

Coninckiidae (0 + 0 species)

Cyartonematidae (0 + 0 species)

Cyatholaimidae (14 + 2 species)

Desmodoridae (13 + 4 species)

Desmoscolecidae (0 + 9 species)

Diplopeltidae (8 + 2 species)

Diplopeltoididae (0 + 0 species)

Draconematidae (1 + 0 species)

Enchelidiidae (11 + 0 species)

Enoplidae (3 + 0 species)

Epsilonematidae (13 + 0 species)

Ethmolaimidae (1 + 0 species)

Haliplectidae (0 + 0 species)

Ironidae (3 + 3 species)

Lauratonematidae (0 + 0 species)

Leptolaimidae (0 + 5 species)

Leptosomatidae (4 + 0 species)

Linhomoeidae (5 + 2 species)

Meyliidae (0 + 1 species)

Microlaimidae (10 + 1 species)

Monhysteridae (2 + 0 species)

Mononchidae (1 + 0 species)

Monoposthiidae (1 + 0 species)

Neotonchidae (0 + 0 species)

Oncholaimidae (15 + 2 species)

Oxystominidae (8 + 1 species)

Pandolaimidae (0 + 0 species)

Paramicrolaimidae (1 + 0 species)

Phanodermatidae (5 + 0 species)

Rhabdodemaniidae (0 + 0 species)

Rhadinematidae (0 + 0 species)

Selachinematidae (2 + 9 species)

Siphonolaimidae (3 + 0 species)

Sphaerolaimidae (3 + 2 species)

Tarvidae (0 + 1 species)

Thoracostomopsidae (16 + 0 species)

Trefusiidae (0 + 1 species)

Tripyloididae (3 + 0 species)

Tubolaimoididae (0 + 0 species)

Xenellidae (0 + 0 species)

Xyalidae (25 + 6 species)

Reference

Bezerra, T.N.; Decraemer, W.; Eisendle-Flöckner, U.; Holovachov, O.; Leduc, D.; Miljutin, D.; Sharma, J.; Smol, N.; Tchesunov, A.; Mokievsky, V.; Venekey, V.; Vanreusel, A. (2018) NeMys: World Database of Free-Living Marine Nematodes. Accessed at http://nemys.ugent.be on 2018-06-05