Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Desmodorida > Suborder Desmodorina > Superfamily Desmodoroidea > Family Desmodoridae > Subfamily Stilbonematinae > Genus Laxus

Laxus contortus Cobb, 1894

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: unresolved
Name Status: species inquirenda

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Laxus*	Cobb, 1894	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Cobb, N. A. (1894). Tricoma and other nematode genera. The proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Second Series). Vol. VIII, 389-421 -With 28 plates.
basis of record	De Smet, G.; Vincx, M.; Vanreusel, A.; Vanhove, S.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Steyaert, M. (2001). Nematoda - free living. In: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50. 161-174.
additional source	Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr. (1950). The freeliving marine nemas of the Mediterranean: I. The Bay of Villefranche. Mémoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, deuxième série = Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique: Bruxelles. 2(37): 1-220.
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)
status source	Tchesunov, A. V. (2013). Marine free-living nematodes of the subfamily Stilbonematinae (Nematoda, DEsmodoridae): taxonomic review with descriptions of a few species from the Nha Trang Bay, Central Vietnam. Meiofauna Marina. 20, 71-94.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Laxus contortus Cobb, 1894. 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:121034

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