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Nemys: World Database of Nematodes
Citable as data publication
Nemys eds. (2023). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Accessed at https://nemys.ugent.be on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.14284/366
Contact:
Bezerra, Tania Nara ;
Availability: 
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
A world checklist of free-living marine Nematodes, compiled by taxonomic experts and based on peer-reviewed literature. more
Nematodes constitute one of the most numerous and widespread groups of animals, inhabiting seas, fresh water, soil or living as parasites of animals and plants. Apparently simple organisms, nematodes possess astounding plasticity to adapt to a wide range of conditions and habitats. Nematodes are most widely known as parasites of plants and animals but they are even more numerous as free inhabitants of soil and water. Although nematodes look very similar in general structure, their morphology is very diverse, ranging from cylindrical to aberrant body shapes, which implies different locomotion patterns, while different mouth morphology relates to their feeding ecology.
Nemys offers documentation on free-living marine, brackish, fresh-water and terrestrial nematodes, mainly providing taxonomical information but also ecological information, including literature on type species which can be consulted by the registered users of this online tool.
Nemys is integrated into the World register of Marine Species (WoRMS) hosted at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), and managed by an international team of taxonomic editors with the help of the WoRMS – Aphia data management team.
Nematodes constitute one of the most numerous and widespread groups of animals, inhabiting seas, fresh water, soil or living as parasites of animals and plants. Apparently simple organisms, nematodes possess astounding plasticity to adapt to a wide range of conditions and habitats. Nematodes are most widely known as parasites of plants and animals but they are even more numerous as free inhabitants of soil and water. Although nematodes look very similar in general structure, their morphology is very diverse, ranging from cylindrical to aberrant body shapes, which implies different locomotion patterns, while different mouth morphology relates to their feeding ecology.
Nemys offers documentation on free-living marine, brackish, fresh-water and terrestrial nematodes, mainly providing taxonomical information but also ecological information, including literature on type species which can be consulted by the registered users of this online tool.
Nemys is integrated into the World register of Marine Species (WoRMS) hosted at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), and managed by an international team of taxonomic editors with the help of the WoRMS – Aphia data management team.
Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates, Biology > Nekton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Fresh water, Brackish water, Terrestrial, Classification, Marine invertebrates, Species, Taxonomy, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, World Waters, Nematoda
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -40,35; MinLat: 27,07 - MaxLong: 64; MaxLat: 78 [WGS84]
Coordinates: MinLong: -40,35; MinLat: 27,07 - MaxLong: 64; MaxLat: 78 [WGS84]
World Waters [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
From 1758 on [In Progress]
Taxonomic coverage
Nematoda [WoRMS]
Parameter
Taxonomy
Contributors
Related datasets
Child datasets:
Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes
MYSIDLAN: Taxonomy and biodiversity of shallow coastal Mysidacea of the Western Indian Ocean
Published in:
AntOBIS: Antarctic Ocean Biodiversity Information System
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species
Project
Aanmaak van een taxonomische databank van de meiofauna van de Noordzee
BIANZO: Biodiversity of 3 representative groups of the Antarctic Zoobenthos
Het benthos in Antarctica: structurele en functionele biodiversiteit
Publication
Describing this dataset
Deprez, T. et al. (2004). NeMys: a multidisciplinary biological information system, in: Vanden Berghe, E. et al. (Ed.) Proceedings 'The Colour of Ocean Data': international symposium on oceanographic data and information management with special attention to biological data Brussels, Belgium, November 25-27, 2002. IOC Workshop Report, 188: pp. 57-63
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Literature research
Release date: 2004-08-24
Metadatarecord created: 2004-05-10
Information last updated: 2023-01-19
