Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Monhysterida > Suborder Monhysterina > Superfamily Sphaerolaimoidea > Family Sphaerolaimidae > Subfamily Metasphaerolaiminae

Metasphaerolaimus Gourbault & Boucher, 1981

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Metasphaerolaimus crassicauda (Freudenhammer, 1975) Gourbault & Boucher, 1981
Metasphaerolaimus hadalis (Freudenhammer, 1975) Gourbault & Boucher, 1981

Literature

original description	Gourbault, N.; Boucher, G. (1981). Nématodes abyssaux (Campange Walda du N/O "Jean Charcot") III. Une sous-famille et six espèces nouvelles de Sphaerolaimidae. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat., Paris. 4e sér. Section A, n°4: 1035-1052.
basis of record	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	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Miljutin, D. M.; Gad, G.; Miljutina, M. M.; Mokievsky, V. O.; Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Esteves, A. M. (2010). The state of knowledge on deep-sea nematode taxonomy: how many valid species are known down there?. Marine Biodiversity. 40(3): 143-159.
additional source	Jensen, P. (1992). Predatory nematodes from the deep-sea: description of species from the Norwegian Sea, diversity of feeding types and geographical distribution. Cah. Biol. Mar. 33: 1-23.
additional source	Fadeeva, N. P. (1983). Study of nematodes of the family Sphaerolaimidae Filip'ev, 1918 Nematoda, Monhysterida from the Sea of Japan. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 62(9): 1321-1333.
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.
identification resource	Leduc, D. (2015). New species of Thelonema, Metasphaerolaimus, and Monhystrella (Nematoda, Monhysterida) from Kermadec Trench, Southwest Pacific. European Journal of Taxonomy. 158, 1-19.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Metasphaerolaimus Gourbault & Boucher, 1981. 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:156847