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While in many animal taxa the potential number of existing species is not so much higher than the number of described species, we clearly cannot state this in the Phylum Nematoda. Showing the example of one nematode family, Diplogastridae, I will report on the description of new genera and species which is still far from saturation. By exploring new areas and biological niches we have been able to discover diversity in forms and numbers that is mind blowing. Molecular methods for nematode characterisation paired with the possibility to keep nematodes strains alive in the laboratory to perform mating experiments and thus follow the biological species concept is a crucial prerequisite to bring modern taxonomy in nematology to the next level.
