Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Monhysterida > Suborder Linhomoeina > Superfamily Siphonolaimoidea > Family Linhomoeidae > Subfamily Desmolaiminae

Desmolaimus de Man, 1880

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Desmolaimus brasiliensis Gerlach, 1963
Desmolaimus bulbulus Lorenzen, 1969
Desmolaimus longicaudatus Kreis, 1929
Desmolaimus mirabilis Allgén, 1935
Desmolaimus tristis Allgén, 1935
Desmolaimus zeelandicus de Man, 1880
Desmolaimus zosterae Allgén, 1933

Literature

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.
basis of record	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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)
additional source	Heip, C.; Herman, R.; Vincx, M. (1983). Subtidal meiofauna of the North Sea: A review. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea. 51: 116-170.
additional source	Gerlach, S. A. (1963). Über freilebende Meeresnematoden. Revision der Linhomoeidae. Zool. Jb. Syst. Bd. 90: 599-658.
additional source	Steyaert, M.; Moodley, L.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Vandewiele, S.; Vincx, M. (2005). Laboratory experiments on the infaunal activity of intertidal nematodes. Hydrobiologia. 540(1-3): 217-223.
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.
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.
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.
taxonomy source	Leduc, D.; Gwyther, J. (2008). Description of new species of Setosabatieria and Desmolaimus (Nematoda: Monhysterida) and a checklist of New Zealand free-living marine nematode species. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 42(3): 339-362.
ecology source	Vanreusel, A., M. Vincx, D. Van Gansbeke & W. Gijselinck, W. (1992). Structural analysis of the meiobenthos communities of the shelf break area in two stations of the Gulf of Biscay (N.E. Atlantic). Belgian Journal of Zoology. 122(2):185-202.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Desmolaimus de Man, 1880. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2474

Dr. Vlada Peneva. Desmolaimus de Man, 1880. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/4bcd83c4-faf1-4994-9880-e7ff7e14977f