@article {340,
	title = {MARINE NEMATODES FROM GUADELOUPE AND OTHER CARIBBEAN ISLANDS .2. DRACONEMATIDAE},
	journal = {Zoologica ScriptaZoologica Scripta},
	volume = {15},
	number = {2},
	year = {1986},
	note = {Decraemer, w gourbault, n},
	pages = {107-118},
	isbn = {0300-3256},
	author = {Decraemer, W. and Gourbault, N.}
}
@article {289,
	title = {POLKEPSILONEMA-FIRMATUM SP-N, A MARINE NEMATODE (NEMATA, EPSILONEMATIDAE) FROM NEW-CALEDONIA},
	journal = {NematologicaNematologica},
	volume = {40},
	number = {4},
	year = {1994},
	note = {Gourbault, n decraemer, w},
	month = {Oct},
	pages = {485-493},
	abstract = {Polkepsilonema firmatum sp. n., a second species of the so far monotypic genus, is described with a single field of small copulatory thorns and three stout ambulatory setae in the external rows in the male, and five supporting setae in the female; the diagnosis of the genus is emended.},
	isbn = {0028-2596},
	author = {Gourbault, N. and Decraemer, W.}
}
@article {297,
	title = {NEW SPECIES OF GLOCHINEMA AND METAGLOCHINEMA (NEMATODA, EPSILONEMATIDAE) FROM NEW-CALEDONIA},
	journal = {Zoologica ScriptaZoologica Scripta},
	volume = {22},
	number = {3},
	year = {1993},
	note = {Gourbault, n decraemer, w},
	month = {Jul},
	pages = {223-227},
	abstract = {Glochinema phaleratum sp. n. and Metaglochinema strigosum sp. n. (Glochinematinae, Epsilonematidae) are described from supralittoral marine sediments in New Caledonia.},
	isbn = {0300-3256},
	author = {Gourbault, N. and Decraemer, W.}
}
@article {304,
	title = {MARINE NEMATODES FROM POLYNESIA EPSILONEMATIDAE AND DRACONEMATIDAE},
	journal = {Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater ResearchAustralian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research},
	volume = {43},
	number = {4},
	year = {1992},
	note = {Gourbault, n decraemer, w},
	pages = {663-681},
	abstract = {In marine sediments from French Polynesian coral reefs, the nematode family Epsilonematidae was represented by eight species. Bathyepsilonema salvati sp. nov. and Perepsilonema moineaui sp. nov., two new species, are described and illustrated. Seven species of Draconematidae were also found. Dracograllus minutus Decraemer, Dracograllus timmi Allen and Noffsinger, and Apenodraconema chlidosis Allen and Noffsinger are redescribed and additional information is given. Four of these taxa were represented by females or juveniles only and could not be identified beyond genus.},
	isbn = {0067-1940},
	author = {Gourbault, N. and Decraemer, W.}
}
@article {309,
	title = {A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF EPSILONEMATIDAE (NEMATODA) FROM NEW-CALEDONIA},
	journal = {Zoologica ScriptaZoologica Scripta},
	volume = {20},
	number = {4},
	year = {1991},
	note = {Gourbault, n decraemer, w},
	pages = {315-319},
	abstract = {Akanthepsilonema helleouetae gen. et sp.n. (Epsilonematidae) is described from supralittoral marine sediments in New Caledonia. Its main features are a heterogeneous cuticule with large horn-like dorsal spines and a field of copulatory horns in the male. The taxonomic position of the new genus within the family is discussed.},
	isbn = {0300-3256},
	author = {Gourbault, N. and Decraemer, W.}
}
@article {253,
	title = {Marine nematodes of the family epsilonematidae: A synthesis with phylogenetic relationships},
	journal = {NematologicaNematologica},
	volume = {42},
	number = {2},
	year = {1996},
	note = {Gourbault, N Decraemer, W},
	month = {Mar},
	pages = {133-158},
	abstract = {The family Epsilonematidae is reviewed. Diagnoses of all taxa are updated, based upon an evaluation of diagnostic features. A generic pictorial key is provided as well as tables summarising the diagnostic characters at species level. An attempt is made to recognize the phylogenetic relationships within the family. The phylogenetic analyses were based upon a data matrix composed of 13 taxa in the ingroup and 16 characters. The results emphasize the monophyletic status of the Epsilonematidae and suggest that Glochinema Metaglochinema and Keratonema form a monophyletic group in relation to the other genera when the characters are treated in ordinal sequence.},
	isbn = {0028-2596},
	author = {Gourbault, N. and Decraemer, W.}
}
@article {270,
	title = {LEPTEPSILONEMA SANTII SP-N FROM SPAIN AND DATA ON THE VARIABILITY OF L-FILIFORME (NEMATA, EPSILONEMATIDAE)},
	journal = {HydrobiologiaHydrobiologia},
	volume = {310},
	number = {1},
	year = {1995},
	note = {Gourbault, n decraemer, w},
	month = {Aug},
	pages = {79-86},
	abstract = {The genus Leptepsilonema is recorded for the first time from the Mediterranean: L. santii sp.n. is characterised by a slender body with a large number of annules (122-128). Cuticular ornamentation with clear ridges and a lateral field of small thorns on both sides of the anteriormost annules are also typical as well as the number and arrangement of copulatory thorns (2-3 pairs, 2 fields), the shape and length (49-58 mu m) of spicules in males. L. filiforme is recorded from New Caledonia; specimens largely resemble the original types but are larger. The variability of some morphological structures is discussed.},
	isbn = {0018-8158},
	author = {Gourbault, N. and Decraemer, W.}
}
@article {288,
	title = {2 NEW SPECIES OF EPSILONEMA FROM SOUTH INDOPACIFIC (NEMATA, EPSILONEMATIDAE)},
	journal = {Journal of NematologyJournal of Nematology},
	volume = {26},
	number = {4},
	year = {1994},
	note = {Gourbault, n decraemer, w},
	month = {Dec},
	pages = {384-391},
	abstract = {Two new species of Epsilonema are described from coral sand from Polynesia and New Caledonia. Epsilonema exoticum, with ca. 131 annules, is characterized by heterogeneous vacuolar ornamentation, small amphid, and male with small field of tiny copulatory thorns. Epsilonema enigmaticum, with ca. 168 annules and small vacuoles and ridges on the cuticle, differs from all other species of the genus by the number (10-16) of subcephalic setae.},
	isbn = {0022-300X},
	author = {Gourbault, N. and Decraemer, W.}
}
@article {229,
	title = {New data on the taxonomic status of Metepsilonema hagmeieri and M-emersum with description of M-lorenzeni sp nov (Nemata, Epsilonematidae)},
	journal = {Cahiers de Biologie MarineCahiers de Biologie Marine},
	volume = {39},
	number = {1},
	year = {1998},
	note = {Decraemer, W Gourbault, N},
	pages = {73-84},
	abstract = {Redescription of M. hagmeieri, type-species of the genus Metepsilonerna, based on the study of populations from the North Sea and the Channel. M. emersum is considered a synonym of the type-species M. hagmeieri. M. lorenzeni sp. nov. is described from the Mediterranean Sea; it is mainly characterized by a large number of non-overlapping annuli with a thick cuticle and wide inner lumen and long spicules. M. hagmeieri sensu Lorenzen 1973 is attributed to the new species M.lorenzeni.},
	isbn = {0007-9723},
	author = {Decraemer, W. and Gourbault, N.}
}
@article {241,
	title = {Marine nematodes of the family Draconematidae (Nemata): a synthesis with phylogenetic relationships},
	journal = {HydrobiologiaHydrobiologia},
	volume = {357},
	year = {1997},
	note = {Decraemer, W Gourbault, N Backeljau, T},
	month = {Dec},
	pages = {185-202},
	abstract = {The family Draconematidae is reviewed. Diagnoses of all taxa are updated or emended, based upon an evaluation of diagnostic features. A phylogenetic analysis at the genus level based on parsimony suggested that Tenuidraconema belongs to the Draconematinae. A new genus Bathychaetosoma is erected to accomodate B. uchidai (Kito, 1983). It is characterized by a cephalic region with a smooth, non-thickened cuticle and numerous cephalic adhesion tubes located posterior to the head region and extending over more than two head diameters along the cervical region.},
	isbn = {0018-8158},
	author = {Decraemer, W. and Gourbault, N. and Backeljau, T.}
}
@article {242,
	title = {Deep-sea nematodes (Nemata, Prochaetosomatinae): new taxa from hydrothermal vents and a polymetallic nodule formation of the Pacific (East Rise; North Fiji and Lau Basins; Clarion-Clipperton fracture zone)},
	journal = {Zoologica ScriptaZoologica Scripta},
	volume = {26},
	number = {1},
	year = {1997},
	note = {Decraemer, W Gourbault, N},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {1-12},
	abstract = {Dinetia nycterobia gen, et sp. n. (Draconematidae, Prochaetosomatinae) is described from a hydrothermal site of the East Pacific Rise. The new genus is characterized by body annulation reaching lip region and including spiral amphids, cuticle not thickened in head region, cephalic adhesion tubes without expanded base located in cervical region, pharynx with terminal bulb provided with a thick cuticularized lumen wall, and posterior adhesion tubes with bell-shaped end. Dinetia nycterobia, the type species, is characterized by the number of cephalic adhesion tubes (19 in male, 15 in female) and of the 4 rows of posterior adhesion tubes (5 tubes lateral, 14-19 subventral in male, 10-15 lateral, 13-20 subventral in female) and the shape and size of the spicules. Cephalochaetosoma pacificum notium subsp. n. from the Fiji deep-sea closely resemble C. pacificum pacificum from Philippines deep-sea but differs in male by the number of sublateral posterior adhesion tubes, the shape and size of the spicules, the number of cloacal setae, the structure of the testis and in both sexes by the spiny cuticular ornamentation, the shorter labial setae and morphometric data. A new genus and new species of Draconematidae is provisionally described, based on the observation of juvenile specimens from the polymetallic nodule formation.},
	isbn = {0300-3256},
	author = {Decraemer, W. and Gourbault, N.}
}
@article {205,
	title = {Cosmopolitanism among nematodes: Examples from Epsilonematidae},
	journal = {Vie et Milieu-Life and EnvironmentVie et Milieu-Life and Environment},
	volume = {51},
	number = {1-2},
	year = {2001},
	note = {Decraemer, W Gourbault, N Helleouet, MN},
	month = {Mar},
	pages = {11-19},
	abstract = {Cosmopolitanism within the Epsilonematidae, a family of free-living marine nematodes with a world-wide distribution, is illustrated by examples from four genera: Epsilonema, Leptepsilonema, Metepsilonema and Perepsilonema. Tables are provided with distribution data for all species of the family.},
	isbn = {0240-8759},
	author = {Decraemer, W. and Gourbault, N. and Helleouet, M. N.}
}
@article {216,
	title = {New species of Metepsilonema (Nemata, Epsilonematidae) from the Channel and the Mediterranean Sea with a polytomous key for the identification of species of the genus},
	journal = {HydrobiologiaHydrobiologia},
	volume = {429},
	number = {1-3},
	year = {2000},
	note = {Decraemer, W Gourbault, N},
	month = {Jun},
	pages = {25-47},
	abstract = {Four new species of Metepsilonema are described from sublittoral stations from the Channel and are mainly characterized: M. volutum sp.nov. by the large body size for the genus up to 460 mu m, 118-121 well overlapping annuli and wide multispiral amphids; M. amphidoxum sp.nov. by 127-133 shortly overlapping annuli and sexual dimorphism in amphid size; M. comptum sp.nov. by 133-140 non-overlapping annuli, anteriormost annuli provided with a wide lumen and borders ornamented with ridges and M. corrugatum sp.nov. by 108-111 overlapping annuli provided with ridges). Additional information is provided for M. callosum together with a discussion on intraspecific variability. A new species of Metepsilonema spec. based on females only, is described but remain unnamed. M. comptum sp.nov. and M. corrugatum sp.nov. are also occurring in the Mediterranean Sea. A polytomous key to species level is presented.},
	isbn = {0018-8158},
	author = {Decraemer, W. and Gourbault, N.}
}
@article {217,
	title = {New species of Leptepsilonema and Polkepsilonema (Nemata, Epsilonematidae)},
	journal = {Cahiers de Biologie MarineCahiers de Biologie Marine},
	volume = {41},
	number = {1},
	year = {2000},
	note = {Decraemer, W Gourbault, N},
	pages = {25-46},
	abstract = {Three new species of the genus Leptepsilonema and one new species of Polkepsilonema are described. Leptepsilonema antonioi sp. nov. is mainly characterized by 111-115 overlapping annules with a large vacuolar ornamentation, a large body size and in male, by number and arrangement of copulatory thorns; L. dauvini sp. nov. has 149-154 annules, ornamented with numerous fine vacuoles and fine outer ridges, and males possess a field of fine copulatory thorns at level of posterior ambulatory region and five minute thorns precloacally; L.. horridum sp. nov, is characterized by 130-131 annules, ornamented with large vacuoles and spines, and males with copulatory thorns arranged in four subventral rows, the inner rows with five or six well developed thorns followed at some distance by one to two thorns, and long spicules (67-72 mu m). Polkepsilonema guirali sp. nov. is characterized by the number and location of copulatory thorns, the number of subcephalic setae, and the feature of the dorsal spines. A polytomous key to species level is presented for the genus Leptepsilonema.},
	isbn = {0007-9723},
	author = {Decraemer, W. and Gourbault, N.}
}
