Genus Tricoma Cobb, 1894

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• Tricoma Cobb, N.A. 1894. Tricoma and other new nematode genera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8(2): 389-421 [Date published 13.4.1894] [389-391].

  Type species:

   Tricoma cincta Cobb, 1894 by original designation.
• Demanema Timm, R.W. 1970. A revision of the nematode order Desmoscolecida Filipjev, 1929. University of California Publications in Zoology 93: 1-115.

Introduction

Decraemer (1978) reported Tricoma cf. brevirostris (Southern, 1914) and Tricoma cf. platapophysa Decraemer, 1978 from Queensland waters, which may represent undescribed species.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Decraemer, W. 1978. Scientific report on the Belgian expedition to The Great Barrier Reef in 1967. Nematodes XI. Morphological and taxonomic study of the genus Tricoma Cobb. (Nematoda: Desmoscolecida), with the description of new species from the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 55: 1-121 [5] (diagnosis)

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