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Microlaimus de Man, 1880

AphiaID

2366 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2366)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Microlaimus globiceps de Man, 1880

Typetaxon of

Microlaimidae Micoletzky, 1922

Parent

Microlaimidae Micoletzky, 1922

Orig. name

Microlaimus de Man, 1880

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Species Microlaimus acanthus (Jayasree & Warwick, 1977) Kovalyev & Tchesunov, 2005
Species Microlaimus acicularis Lorenzen, 1976
Species Microlaimus acinaces Warwick & Platt, 1973
Species Microlaimus acuticaudatus Schuurmans Stekhoven & De Coninck, 1933
Species Microlaimus aequisetosus Blome, 1982
Species Microlaimus affinis Gerlach, 1958
Species Microlaimus africanensis Furstenberg & Vincx, 1992
Species Microlaimus alexandri Lima, Neres & Esteves, 2022
Species Microlaimus amphidius Kamran, Nasira & Shahina, 2009
Species Microlaimus annelisae Jensen, 1976
Species Microlaimus arcticus Mulvey, 1969
Species Microlaimus arenarius (Blome, 1982) Kovalyev & Miljutina, 2009
Species Microlaimus arenicola Schulz, 1938
Species Microlaimus arunachalensis Saha & Lad, 2000
Species Microlaimus bathyalis (Kovalev & Miljutina, 2009) Tchesunov, 2014
Species Microlaimus borealis Steiner, 1916
Species Microlaimus campiensis Lima, Neres & Esteves, 2022
Species Microlaimus capillaris Gerlach, 1957
Species Microlaimus capitatus Gagarin, 2020
Species Microlaimus clancularius Bussau, 1993
Species Microlaimus cochleatus Wieser, 1959
Species Microlaimus compridus Gerlach, 1956
Species Microlaimus conothelis (Lorenzen, 1973) Jensen, 1978
Species Microlaimus copulatus Jensen, 1988
Species Microlaimus criminalis Rieger & Ott, 1971
Species Microlaimus cyatholaimoides de Man, 1922
Species Microlaimus decoratus Pastor de Ward, 1989
Species Microlaimus dimorphus Chitwood, 1937
Species Microlaimus discolensis Bussau, 1993
Species Microlaimus dixiei Wieser, 1959
Species Microlaimus donsi Allgén, 1935
Species Microlaimus falciferus Leduc & Wharton, 2008
Species Microlaimus falklandiae Allgén, 1959
Species Microlaimus formosus Gerlach, 1957
Species Microlaimus gerlachi Wieser, 1954
Species Microlaimus globiceps de Man, 1880
Species Microlaimus honestoides Meyl, 1954
Species Microlaimus honestus De Man, 1922
Species Microlaimus inermis Ditlevsen, 1923
Species Microlaimus karachiensis Kamran, Nasira & Shahina, 2009
Species Microlaimus kaurii Wieser, 1954
Species Microlaimus korari Leduc, 2016
Species Microlaimus latilaimus Allgén, 1959
Species Microlaimus lepturus De Cillis, 1917
Species Microlaimus limnophilus Turpeenniemi, 1997
Species Microlaimus longispiculum Timm, 1961
Species Microlaimus lunatus (Wieser & Hopper, 1967) Jensen, 1978
Species Microlaimus macrocirculus Gerlach, 1950
Species Microlaimus macrolaimus Allgén, 1947
Species Microlaimus marinus (Schulz, 1932) Schuurmans Stekhoven & De Coninck, 1933
Species Microlaimus martinezi (Miljutin & Miljutina, 2009) Tchesunov, 2014
Species Microlaimus microseta Gerlach, 1953
Species Microlaimus minutissimus (Kovalev & Miljutina, 2009) Tchesunov, 2014
Species Microlaimus minutus Muthumbi & Vincx, 1999
Species Microlaimus mnazi (Muthumbi & Vincx, 1999)
Species Microlaimus monstrosus Gerlach, 1953
Species Microlaimus naidinae Tchesunov, 1978
Species Microlaimus nanus Blome, 1982
Species Microlaimus nympha (Bussau & Vopel, 1999) Tchesunov, 2014
Species Microlaimus oblongilaimus Gerlach, 1955
Species Microlaimus orientalis Gagarin & Nguyen Vu Thanh, 2011
Species Microlaimus ostracion Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1935
Species Microlaimus papillatus Gerlach, 1956
Species Microlaimus papilliferus Allgén, 1959
Species Microlaimus paraaffinis Guo, Wang & Wang, 2023
Species Microlaimus paraborealis Allgén, 1940
Species Microlaimus paraconothelis Kovalyev & Tchesunov, 2005
Species Microlaimus paraglobiceps Revkova, 2017
Species Microlaimus parahonestus Gerlach, 1950
Species Microlaimus parviporosus Miljutin & Miljutina, 2009
Species Microlaimus pinguis Wieser, 1954
Species Microlaimus ponticus Sergeeva, 1976
Species Microlaimus porus Bussau, 1993
Species Microlaimus punctulatus Gerlach, 1950
Species Microlaimus pwani Muthumbi & Vincx, 1999
Species Microlaimus pygmaeus Meyl, 1954
Species Microlaimus robustidens Schuurmans Stekhoven & De Coninck, 1933
Species Microlaimus sensus Wieser, 1954
Species Microlaimus sergeevae Revkova, 2020
Species Microlaimus setosus Hoeppli, 1926
Species Microlaimus sicarius Wieser, 1954
Species Microlaimus spinosus Gerlach, 1957
Species Microlaimus tenuicollis Gerlach, 1952
Species Microlaimus tenuispiculum de Man, 1922
Species Microlaimus texianus Chitwood, 1951
Species Microlaimus undulatus Gerlach, 1953
Species Microlaimus validus Gagarin & Thu, 2014
Species Microlaimus vitorius Lima, Neres & Esteves, 2022
Species Microlaimus westindicus (Kovalev & Miljutina, 2009) Tchesunov, 2014
Species Microlaimus zosterae Allgén, 1930
Species Microlaimus chitwoodi Gerlach, 1950 accepted as Bolbolaimus chitwoodi (Gerlach, 1950) Jensen, 1978
Species Microlaimus dentatus Chitwood, 1937 accepted as Microlaimus chitwoodi Gerlach, 1950 accepted as Bolbolaimus chitwoodi (Gerlach, 1950) Jensen, 1978 (Name prerequisition)
Species Microlaimus lazonus Vitiello, 1970 accepted as Molgolaimus lazonus (Vitiello, 1970) Jensen, 1978
Species Microlaimus spirifer Warwick, 1970 accepted as Molgolaimus spirifer (Warwick, 1970) Shi & Xu, 2017 (see Shi & Xu (2017))
Species Microlaimus problematicus Allgén, 1932 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, inadequate description)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

De Man, J. G. (1879). Die Einheimischen, Frei In Der Reinen Erde Und Im Süssen Wasser Lebenden Nematoden. Monographisch Bearbeitet. Vorläufiger Bericht und descriptiv-systematischer Theil. Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging. 5: 1-104. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Taxonomic citation

Nemys eds. (2024). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Microlaimus de Man, 1880. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2024) Marine Species Traits at: https://marinespecies.org/traits./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2366 on 2024-05-16

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2024). Marine Species Traits. Microlaimus de Man, 1880. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2366 on 2024-05-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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2006-09-25 06:54:45Z

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Martinez, Olga

2013-03-29 14:00:54Z

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Vanaverbeke, Jan

2016-03-15 10:22:58Z

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Miljutin, Dmitry

2016-06-24 10:14:29Z

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Miljutin, Dmitry

2016-07-05 08:41:47Z

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Miljutin, Dmitry

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original description De Man, J. G. (1879). Die Einheimischen, Frei In Der Reinen Erde Und Im Süssen Wasser Lebenden Nematoden. Monographisch Bearbeitet. Vorläufiger Bericht und descriptiv-systematischer Theil. Tijdschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging. 5: 1-104. (look up in IMIS) [details]

taxonomy source Jensen, P. (1978). Revision of Microlaimidae, Erection of Molgolaimidae fam.n., and Remarks on the Systematic Position of Paramicrolaimus (Nematoda, Desmodorida). Zoologica Scripta. 7(1-4): 159-173., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1978.tb00599.x [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Muthumbi, A. W.; Vincx, M. (1999). Microlaimidae (Microlaimoidea: Nematoda) from the Indian Ocean: description of nine new and known species. Hydrobiologia. 397: 39-58. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Kovalyev, S. V.; Miljutina, M. A. (2009). A review of the genus Aponema Jensen, 1978 (Nematoda: Microlaimidae) with description of three new species. Zootaxa. 2077: 56–68. [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Gerlach, S. A. (1950). Die Nematoden-Gattung Microlaimus. Zool. Jb. (Syst.). 79: 188-208.
note: 3 new species, 16 redescriptions, 2 nov. nom. and key to species [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Kovalyev, V.; Tchesunov, A. V. (2005). Taxonomic review of microlaimids with description of five species from the white Sea (Nematoda: Chromadoria). Zoosystematica Rossica. 14(1): 1-16. [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Tchesunov, A. V. (2014). Chapter 7.13. Order Desmodorida De Coninck, 1965. In: Schmidt-Rhaesa A. (ed.) Handbook of Zoology. Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia, Gnathifera. Volume 2: Nematoda. 399-434. [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Leduc, D. (2016). One new genus and three new species of deep-sea nematodes (Nematoda: Microlaimidae) from the Southwest Pacific Ocean and Ross Sea. Zootaxa. 4079(2): 255., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4079.2.7
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basis of record Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004). (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Various Authors (2000). Nematode filing cabinet of the Marine Biology Section Ugent - in combination with the NemasLan Ms-Access database (published on CD-Rom, 2000) (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Verschelde, D.; Nicholas, W.; Vincx, M. (2006). A Review of the Genera Croconema Cobb, 1920 and Pseudochromadora Daday, 1899 (Nematoda, Desmodoroidea): New Species from the Coasts of Kenya and Australia. Hydrobiologia. 571, 17-40. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Armenteros, M.; Vincx, M.; Decraemer, W. (2010). Guitartia tridentata n. gen., n. sp. (Monhysterida: Xyalidae) and Macrodontium gaspari n. gen., n. sp. (Chromadorida: Microlaimidae), free-living marine nematodes from the Caribbean Sea. Nematology. 12 (3): 417-427. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Guo, Y.; Helléouet, M.-N.; Boucher, G. (2008). Spatial patterns of meiofauna and diversity of nematode species assemblages in the Uvea lagoon (Loyalty Islands, South Pacific). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 88(5), 931–940. [details] Available for editors

additional source Copley, J. T. P.; Flint, H. C.; Ferrero, T. J.; Van Dover, C. L. (2007). Diversity of meiofauna and free-living nematodes in hydrothermal vant mussel beds on the northern and southern East Pacific Rise. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. [details] Available for editors

additional source Dando, P. R.; Austen, M. C.; Burke, Jr. R. A.; Kendall, M. A.; Kennicutt, II M. C.; Judd, A. G.; Moore, D. C.; O'Hara, S. C. M.; Schmaljohann, R.; Southward, A. J. (1991). Ecology of a North Sea pockmark with an active methane seep. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 70: 49-63. [details] Available for editors

additional source Decraemer, W.; Coomans, A. (1978). Scientific Report on the Belgian Expedition to The Great Barrier Reef in 1967. Nematodes XII. Ecological Notes on the Nematode Fauna in and around Mangroves on Lizard Island. Aust. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 29, 497-508. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/MF9780497 [details] Available for editors

additional source Derycke, S.; Van Vynckt, R.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Vincx, M.; Moens, T. (2007). Colonization patterns of Nematoda on decomposing algae in the estuarine environment: community assembly and genetic structure of the dominant species Pellioditis marina. Limnology and Oceanography. 52(3): 992-1001. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Fonseca, G.; Soltwedel, T.; Vanreusel, A.; Lindegarth, M. (2010). Variation in nematode assemblages over multiple spatial scales and environmental conditions in Arctic deep seas. Progress in Oceanography. 84 (3-4): 174-184., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2009.11.001 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Gobin, J. F. (2007). Free-living marine nematodes of hard bottom substrates in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. Bulletin of Marine Science. 81(1): 73–84. [details]

additional source Maria, T. F.; Esteves, A. M.; Smol, N.; Vanreusel, A.; Decraemer, W. (2008). Nematodes from sandy beaches of Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Biociências, Porto Alegre. 16 (2), 92-103. [details] Available for editors

additional source Miljutin, D. M.; Gad, G.; Miljutina, M. M.; Mokievsky, V. O.; Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Esteves, A. M. (2010). The state of knowledge on deep-sea nematode taxonomy: how many valid species are known down there?. Marine Biodiversity. 40(3): 143-159., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-010-0041-4 [details] Available for editors

additional source Shirayama, Y. (1992). Studies of meiofauna collected from the Iheya Ridge during the dive 541 of the "SHINKAI 2000". Proc. JAMSTEC symp. deep Sea Research. 8, 287-291. [details] Available for editors

additional source Van Gaever, S.; Galéron, J.; Sibuet, M.; Vanreusel, A. (2009). Deep-sea habitat heterogeneity influence on meiofaunal communities in the Gulf of Guinea. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 56(23): 2259-2269., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2009.04.008 [details] Available for editors

additional source Van Gaever, S.; Moodley, L.; De Beer, D.; Vanreusel, A. (2006). Meiobenthos at the Arctic Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano, with a parental-caring nematode thriving in sulphide-rich sediments. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 321: 143-155., available online at https://doi.org/10.3354/meps321143 [details] Available for editors

additional source Van Gaever, S.; Olu, K.; Derycke, S.; Vanreusel, A. (2009). Metazoan meiofaunal communities at cold seeps along the Norwegian margin: Influence of habitat heterogeneity and evidence for connection with shallow-water habitats. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 56(5): 772-785., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2008.12.015 [details] Available for editors

additional source Van Gaever, S.; Raes, M.; Pasotti, F.; Vanreusel, A. (2009). Spatial scale and habitat-dependent diversity patterns in nematode communities in three seepage related sites along the Norwegian Sea margin. Marine Ecology. 31(1): 66-77., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2009.00314.x [details] Available for editors

additional source Van Gaever, S.; Vanreusel, A.; Hughes, J.; Bett, B.; Kiriakoulakis, K. (1999). The macro- and micro-scale patchiness of meiobenthos associated with the Darwin Mounds (north-east Atlantic). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK. 84(3): 547-556., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315404009555h [details] Available for editors

additional source Vanreusel, A.; Van Den Bossche, I.; Thiermann, F. (1997). Free-living marine nematodes from hydrothermal sediments: similarities with communities from diverse reduced habitats. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 157: 207-219. [details] Available for editors

additional source Venekey, V.; Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Santos, P. J. P. (2010). Biodiversity of free-living marine nematodes on the coast of Brazil: a review. Zootaxa. 2568: 39–66. [details] Available for editors

additional source De Oliveira Pinto, T.K.,Netto, S.A., Esteves, A.M., De Castro, F.J.V., Neres, P.F. and Da Silva, M.C. (2021). Free-living freshwater nematodes from Brazil: checklist of genera and regional patterns of diversity. Nematology. 0 (2021) 1-14. [details] Available for editors

ecology source Derycke, S.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Rigaux, A.; Backeljau, T.; Moens, T. (2010). Exploring the Use of Cytochrome Oxidase c Subunit 1 (COI) for DNA Barcoding of Free-Living Marine Nematodes. PLoS ONE. 5(10): e13716., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013716 [details] Available for editors

ecology source Leduc, D.; Probert, P.; Nodder, S. (2010). Influence of mesh size and core penetration on estimates of deep-sea nematode abundance, biomass, and diversity. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 57(10): 1354-1362., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2010.06.005 [details] Available for editors

ecology source Raes, M.; De Troch, M.; Ndaro, S. G. M.; Muthumbi, A.; Guilini, K.; Vanreusel, A. (2007). The structuring role of microhabitat type in coral degradation zones: a case study with marine nematodes from Kenya and Zanzibar. Coral Reefs. 26 (1): 13-126. [details] Available for editors

ecology source Raes, M.; Vanreusel, A. (2006). Microhabitat type determines the composition of nematode communities associated with sediment-clogged cold-water coral framework in the Porcupine Seabight (NE Atlantic). Deep-Sea Research Part I. 53 (12): 880-1894. [details] Available for editors

ecology source Sebastian, S.; Raes, M.; De Mesel, I.; Vanreusel, A. (2007). Comparison of the nematode fauna from the Weddell Sea Abyssal Plain with two North Atlantic abyssal sites. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 54(16-17): 1727-1736. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.07.004 [details] Available for editors

ecology source Ingels, J.; Vanhove, S.; De Mesel, I.; Vanreusel, A. (2006). The biodiversity and biogeography of the free-living nematode genera Desmodora and Desmodorella (family Desmodoridae) at both sides of the Scotia Arc. Polar Biology. 29(11): 936-949., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-006-0135-4 [details] Available for editors

ecology source Vanaverbeke, J.; Deprez, T.; Vincx, M. (2007). Changes in nematode communities at the long-term sand extraction site of the Kwintebank (Southern Bight of the North Sea). Marine Pollution Bulletin. 54(9): 1351-1360. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2007.05.019 [details] Available for editors

ecology source Ingels, J., K. Kiriakoulakis, G.A. Wolff & A. Vanreusel. (2009). Nematode diversity and its relation to the quantity and quality of sedimentary organic matter in the deep Nazaré Canyon, Western Iberian Margin. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 56(9): 1521-1539. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2009.04.010 [details]

ecology source Vanaverbeke, J., K. Soetaert, C. Heip & A. Vanreusel. (1997). The metazoan meiobenthos along the continental slope of the Goban Spur (NE Atlantic). Journal of Sea Research. 38:93-107. [details] Available for editors