Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Enoplea > Subclass Enoplia > Order Enoplida > Suborder Ironina > Superfamily Ironoidea > Family Oxystominidae > Subfamily Halalaiminae > Genus Halalaimus

Halalaimus capitulatus Boucher, 1977

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Halalaimus*	de Man, 1888	accepted genus name
*Acoma*	Steiner, 1916	synonym
*Nuada*	Southern, 1914	synonym
*Tycnodora*	Cobb, 1920	synonym

Literature

original description	Boucher, G. (1977). Nématodes des sables fins infralittoraux de la Pierre Noire (Manche occidentale). IV. Enoplida. Bulletin du Muséum National d' Histoire Naturelle. (3) 468 (Zoologie 325): 733-752.
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	Keppner, E. J. (1992). Eleven new species of free-living marine nematodes of the genus Halalaimus De Man, 1888 (Nematoda:Enoplida) from Florida with keys to the species. Gulf Research Reports. 8 (4), 333-362.
additional source	Aguirrezabalaga, F., Altuna, A., Marruedo, J., Miner, A., Peña, J., Romero, A., San Juan, R., San Vicente, C., Serrano, A. and Ibáñez, M. (1988). Contribución al conocimiento de la fauna marina de la Costa Vasca VI. Lurralde. 11, pp.217-265.
additional source	Austen, M. C.; Widdicombe, S. (1998). Experimental evidence of effects of the heart urchin Brissopsis lyrifera on associated subtidal meiobenthic nematode communities. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 222: 219-238.
redescription	Platt, H. M.; Warwick, R. M. (1983). Free-living marine nematodes part I, British enoplids: pictorial key to world genera and notes for the identification of British species. Synopses of the British fauna (New Series), 28. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-25422-1. VII, 307 pp.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Halalaimus capitulatus Boucher, 1977. 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:122004