Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Desmodorida > Suborder Desmodorina > Superfamily Microlaimoidea > Family Microlaimidae

Microlaimus de Man, 1880

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Paracothonolaimus*	Schulz, 1932	synonym

Children

Microlaimus acanthus (Jayasree & Warwick, 1977) Kovalyev & Tchesunov, 2005
Microlaimus acicularis Lorenzen, 1976
Microlaimus acinaces Warwick & Platt, 1973
Microlaimus acuticaudatus Schuurmans Stekhoven & De Coninck, 1933
Microlaimus annelisae Jensen, 1976
Microlaimus arenarius (Blome, 1982) Kovalyev & Miljutina, 2009
Microlaimus arenicola Schulz, 1938
Microlaimus borealis Steiner, 1916
Microlaimus citrus Gerlach, 1959
Microlaimus cochleatus Wieser, 1959
Microlaimus compridus Gerlach, 1956
Microlaimus conothelis (Lorenzen, 1973) Jensen, 1978
Microlaimus criminalis Rieger & Ott, 1971
Microlaimus cyatholaimoides de Man, 1922
Microlaimus dimorphus Chitwood, 1937
Microlaimus donsi Allgén, 1935
Microlaimus globiceps de Man, 1880
Microlaimus honestoides Meyl, 1954
Microlaimus honestus De Man, 1922
Microlaimus inermis Ditlevsen, 1923
Microlaimus limnophilus Turpeenniemi, 1997
Microlaimus macrocirculus Gerlach, 1950
Microlaimus marinus (Schulz, 1932) Schuurmans Stekhoven & De Coninck, 1933
Microlaimus microseta Gerlach, 1953
Microlaimus monstrosus Gerlach, 1953
Microlaimus ostracion Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1935
Microlaimus paraborealis Allgén, 1940
Microlaimus parahonestus Gerlach, 1950
Microlaimus pinguis Wieser, 1954
Microlaimus problematicus Allgén, 1932
Microlaimus punctulatus Gerlach, 1950
Microlaimus pygmaeus Meyl, 1954
Microlaimus robustidens Schuurmans Stekhoven & De Coninck, 1933
Microlaimus tenuicollis Gerlach, 1952
Microlaimus tenuispiculum de Man, 1922
Microlaimus texianus Chitwood, 1951
Microlaimus undulatus Gerlach, 1953
Microlaimus zosterae Allgén, 1930

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	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
taxonomy source	Gerlach, S. A. (1950). Die Nematoden-Gattung Microlaimus. Zool. Jb. (Syst.). 79: 188-208.
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.
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.
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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.
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Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys
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NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Microlaimus 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:2366

Dr. Vlada Peneva. Microlaimus de Man, 1880. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/e52df99c-24df-4462-8985-5787034f9b84