WoRMS taxon details
Metachromadoroides Timm, 1961
159619 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159619)
accepted
Genus
Metachromadora (Metachromadoroides) Timm, 1961 · unaccepted
- Species Metachromadoroides champensis Manna, Balakrishnan & Ansari, 2026
- Species Metachromadoroides complexa Timm, 1961
- Species Metachromadoroides hamatus Manna, Balakrishnan & Ansari, 2026
- Species Metachromadoroides minor Gagarin & Nguyen, 2010
- Species Metachromadoroides obscura Nguyen, Gagarin, Phan, Nguyen & Nguyen, 2016
- Species Metachromadoroides orientalis Gagarin & Nguyen, 2014
- Species Metachromadoroides parobscura Sun & Huang, 2024
- Species Metachromadoroides pulvinata Wieser & Hopper, 1967
- Species Metachromadoroides remanei (Gerlach, 1951) Timm, 1961
- Species Metachromadoroides sinuspersici Gharahkhani, Pourjam, Leduc & Pedram, 2021
- Species Metachromadoroides vulgaris (Timm, 1961) De Coninck, 1965
- Species Metachromadoroides xiamenensis Zhou, Zeng, Cai, Fu & Tan, 2020
- Species Metachromadoroides zaixsi Pastor de Ward, 2004
marine, brackish
Nemys eds. (2026). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Metachromadoroides Timm, 1961. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159619 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Timm, R. W. (1961). The Marine Nematodes of the Bay of Bengal. <em>Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Science.</em> 1(1): 25-88. [details] Available for editors 
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new combination reference Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.). (2014). Handbook of Zoology. Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera: 2. Nematoda. <em>Handbook of Zoology (2010) Walter De Gruyter: Berlin.</em> 759 pp., available online at http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/180464
page(s): p. 404 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]new combination reference Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.). (2014). Handbook of Zoology. Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera: 2. Nematoda. <em>Handbook of Zoology (2010) Walter De Gruyter: Berlin.</em> 759 pp., available online at http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/180464
page(s): p. 404 [details] Available for editors
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Gharahkhani, A.; Pourjam, E.; Leduc, D.; Pedram, M. (2021). Further data on Iranian marine nematode diversity, with description of three new Desmodoridae Filipjev, 1922 (Nematoda: Desmodorida) species from the Persian Gulf. <em>Nematology.</em> 23, 781-802., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/15685411-bja10077 [details] Available for editors [request]
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identification resource
Manna, C.; Balakrishnan, S.; Ansari, K. G. M. T. (2026). Rediscovery of the free-living nematode genus Metachromadoroides Timm, 1961 (Desmodorida: Desmodoridae) after 60 years from the Bay of Bengal, with the description of two new species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5821(4): 486-500., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5821.4.3 [details] Available for editors [request]
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