Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS)

NARMS taxon details

Halalaimus de Man, 1888

Halalaimus sp.

AphiaID

2548 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2548)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Halalaimus gracilis de Man, 1888

Parent

Halalaiminae De Coninck, 1965

Original name

Halalaimus de Man, 1888

Direct children (28)

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Species Halalaimus amphidellus Vitiello, 1970
Species Halalaimus amphistrius Vitiello, 1970
Species Halalaimus capitulatus Boucher, 1977
Species Halalaimus cirrhatus Gerlach, 1953
Species Halalaimus curvicaudatus Juario, 1974
Species Halalaimus delamarei Vitiello, 1970
Species Halalaimus diplocephalus Filipjev, 1927
Species Halalaimus filicorpus Vitiello, 1970
Species Halalaimus filum Gerlach, 1962
Species Halalaimus fletcheri Mawson, 1958
Species Halalaimus gracilis de Man, 1888
Species Halalaimus horridus Gerlach, 1956
Species Halalaimus isaitshikovi (Filipjev, 1927) Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1935
Species Halalaimus leptosoma (Southern, 1914) Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1935
Species Halalaimus longicaudatus (Filipjev, 1927) Schneider, 1939
Species Halalaimus longicollis Allg�n, 1932
Species Halalaimus longisetosus Hopper, 1963
Species Halalaimus lutarus Vitiello, 1970
Species Halalaimus meyersi Wieser & Hopper, 1967
Species Halalaimus monstrocaudatus Vitiello, 1970
Species Halalaimus pachyderma (Filipjev, 1927) Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1935
Species Halalaimus pachyodoroides Vitiello, 1970
Species Halalaimus papillifer Gerlach, 1956
Species Halalaimus ponticus Filipjev, 1922
Species Halalaimus striatus Gerlach, 1956
Species Halalaimus terrestris Gerlach, 1959
Species Halalaimus turbidus Vitiello, 1970
Species Halalaimus zenkevitshi Filipjev, 1927

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

de Man, J. G. (1888). Sur quelques n�matodes libres de la mer du Nord, nouveaux ou peu connus. M�moires de la Soci�t� Zoologique de France. 1: 1-51., available online at http://biostor.org/reference/61577
page(s): 2 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Halalaimus de Man, 1888. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://marbef.org//marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2548 on 2025-05-26

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Halalaimus de Man, 1888. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=2548 on 2025-05-26

Taxonomic edit history

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original description de Man, J. G. (1888). Sur quelques n�matodes libres de la mer du Nord, nouveaux ou peu connus. M�moires de la Soci�t� Zoologique de France. 1: 1-51., available online at http://biostor.org/reference/61577
page(s): 2 [details]

taxonomy source Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr. (1935). Nematoda: Systematischer Teil, Nematoda errantia. Grimpe, G. and E. Wagler, Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee (Leipzig 1935). V b: 1-173. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 21; note: Nuada synonym with Halalaimus [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Wieser, W. (1953). Reports of the Lund University Chile expedition 1948-1949: 1. Enoploidea. Lunds Universitets �rsskrift, N. F. 49(6): 1-155. (look up in IMIS)
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identification resource Gagarin V.G. (2016). Three New Spesies of the Genus Halalaimus (Nematoda, Enoplida) from Mangrove Forest of Vietnam. Amurian zoological journal. 8(1): 3-19.
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identification resource Shimada, D.; Takeda, N.; Tsune, A. & Murakami, C. (2020). Three new species of free-living marine nematodes (Nematoda: Enoplida) from the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ), North Pacific. Zootaxa. 4859 (4): 507�526.
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identification resource Gagarin, V. G. (2020). Halalaimus borealis sp. nov. and Viscosia orientalis sp. nov. (Nematoda, Enoplida) from the mouth of the Cam River in Vietnam. Amurian Zoological Journal. 12(1): 26-42., available online at https://doi.org/10.33910/2686-9519-2020-12-1-26-42
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