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

Microlaimus pinguis Wieser, 1954

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Microlaimus*	de Man, 1880	accepted genus name
*Paracothonolaimus*	Schulz, 1932	synonym

Literature

original description	Wieser, W. (1954). Free-living marine nematodes II. Chromadoroidea. Acta Univ. lund (N.F.2). 50 (16): 1-148.
basis of record	Coomans, A. V. (1989). Overzicht van de vrijlevende nematofauna van België (Nematoda). [The freeliving nematofauna of Belgium: a review.]. In Wouters, K.; Baert, L. (Ed.): Invertebraten van België = Invertébrés de Belgique: Verhandelingen van het Symposium "Invertebraten van België" = Comptes rendus du Symposium "Invertébrés de Belgique" = Proceedings of the Symposium "Invertebrates of Belgium". Brussel, 25-26 november 1988. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussel, Belgium. 43-56.
additional 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.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Microlaimus pinguis Wieser, 1954. 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:153418