Checklist of Canadian Nematodes

Checklist Derived from Occurrence
Latest version published by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada on Feb 10, 2026 Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

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Description

There are nearly 30,000 slides and 5000 vials of over 88,000 roundworm specimens in the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes (CNC). This checklist is based on a subset of CNC’s nematode (roundworm) accessions from Canada’s provinces and territories. This checklist is not exhaustive; nematodes regulated by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency are purposefully removed from this compilation. Scientific names were cross-referenced against valid and accepted names indicated in Nemys, the World Database of Nematodes.

Data Records

The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 219 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Taxon (core)
219
Distribution 
473

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Biological Collections Division (2026). Checklist of Canadian Nematodes. Version 1.0. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Checklist dataset. https://doi.org/10.5886/gbcnv7

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 009f441e-6402-4b76-8279-cf7214c826a5.  Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Checklist; CNC; roundworms; nematodes; Derivedfromoccurrence

Contacts

Biological Collections Division
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Biological Collections Division
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Ontario
CA

Geographic Coverage

Canada.

Bounding Coordinates South West [41.68, -141], North East [83.11, -52.62]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Nematoda

Additional Metadata

Acknowledgements
Alternative Identifiers 10.5886/gbcnv7
10.5886/8rpkzo
https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=aafc_nematode_checklist