Nematodes from terrestrial and freshwater habitats in the Arctic

Abstract

We present an updated list of terrestrial and freshwater nematodes from all regions of the Arctic, for which records of properly identified nematode species are available: Svalbard, Jan Mayen, Iceland, Greenland, Nunavut, Northwest territories, Alaska, Lena River estuary, Taymyr and Severnaya Zemlya and Novaya Zemlya. The list includes 391 species belonging to 146 genera, 54 families and 10 orders of the phylum Nematoda.

Keywords

• Alaska
• Arctic
• distribution
• fauna
• freshwater
• Greenland
• Iceland
• Jan Mayen
• Lena River
• Northwest territories
• Novaya Zemlya
• Nunavut
• Severnaya Zemlya
• Svalbard
• Taymyr
• terrestrial.