WoRMS taxon details
Desmodorella Cobb, 1933
853823 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:853823)
accepted
Genus
Desmodora (Desmodorella) Cobb, 1933 · unaccepted (raised to genus level)
- Species Desmodorella abyssorum (Allgén, 1929) Gerlach, 1963
- Species Desmodorella aquaedulcis Gagarin & Nguyen Vu Thanh, 2003
- Species Desmodorella balteata Verschelde, Gourbault & Vincx, 1998
- Species Desmodorella cornuta Manoel, Neres & Esteves, 2025
- Species Desmodorella curvispiculum (Jensen, 1985) Verschelde et al., 1998
- Species Desmodorella filispiculum (Lorenzen, 1976) Verschelde et al., 1998
- Species Desmodorella hirsuta (Chitwood, 1936) Verschelde et al., 1998
- Species Desmodorella papillostoma (Murphy, 1962) Verschelde et al., 1998
- Species Desmodorella parabalteata Manoel, Neres & Esteves, 2025
- Species Desmodorella perforata (Wieser, 1954) Verschelde et al., 1998
- Species Desmodorella sanguinea (Southern, 1914) Verschelde et al., 1998
- Species Desmodorella schulzi (Gerlach, 1950) Verschelde et al., 1998
- Species Desmodorella sinuata (Lorenzen, 1976) Verschelde et al., 1998
- Species Desmodorella spineacaudata Verschelde, Gourbault & Vincx, 1998
- Species Desmodorella tenuispiculum (Allgén, 1928) Gerlach, 1963
- Species Desmodorella verscheldei Leduc & Zhao, 2016
- Species Desmodorella bullata (Steiner, 1916) Verschelde, Gourbault & Vincx, 1998 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Desmodorella cephalia (Cobb, 1933) Gerlach & Riemann, 1973 accepted as Desmodora (Desmodorella) cephalata Cobb, 1933 accepted as Desmodora cephalata (Cobb, 1933) accepted as Desmodorella tenuispiculum (Allgén, 1928) Gerlach, 1963
marine, fresh
Cobb, N. A. (1933). New nemic genera and species, with taxonomic notes (Ed. by Margaret V. Cobb). <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 20(2): 81-94., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3272166 [details] Available for editors 
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Nemys eds. (2026). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Desmodorella Cobb, 1933. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=853823 on 2026-04-30
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Nomenclature
original description
Cobb, N. A. (1933). New nemic genera and species, with taxonomic notes (Ed. by Margaret V. Cobb). <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 20(2): 81-94., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3272166 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Desmodora (Desmodorella) Cobb, 1933) Cobb, N. A. (1933). New nemic genera and species, with taxonomic notes (Ed. by Margaret V. Cobb). <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 20(2): 81-94., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3272166 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]original description (of Desmodora (Desmodorella) Cobb, 1933) Cobb, N. A. (1933). New nemic genera and species, with taxonomic notes (Ed. by Margaret V. Cobb). <em>Journal of Parasitology.</em> 20(2): 81-94., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3272166 [details] Available for editors
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identification resource
Manoel, A.; Neres, P. F.; Esteves, A. M. (2025). Two new free-living marine species of <i>Desmodorella</i> (Nematoda: Desmodoridae) from the continental shelf of northeastern Brazil, with an emended generic diagnosis and a dichotomous key to the species. <em>PeerJ.</em> 13: e20094., available online at https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20094 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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