Cyber catalogue and revision of the nematode genus Enchodelus (Dorylaimida, Nordiidae)

This contribution provides a cyber catalogue of all <i>Enchodelus</i> species, 28 in total. It compiles available information from the key European Research Infrastructures, such as TreatmentBank, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Literature Services (SIBiLS), the Catalogue of Life (CoL), Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) and Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR). Data about their distribution (geographical records and habitats) are incorporated too and all brought together. It is completed with discussion and notes for some species, along with information on species distributions and microhabitats. Here, all available information on <i>Enchodelus</i> species is brought together. This will contribute to a more complete assessment of species diversity and distribution and support further biogeographical and ecological research.Besides, type material <i>Enchodelusvestibulifer</i> Altherr, 1952, deposited in the Museo Cantonale di Storia Naturale di Lugano (Switzerland), is re-examined and the species is considered as <i>incertae sedis</i>. Further, a new species of the genus found in Caucasus, Georgia is described after its morphological and molecular study; also morphological and molecular data for <i>E.macrodorus</i> (de Man, 1880) Thorne, 1939, the type species of the genus, collected from Spain are provided.