Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Monhysterida > Suborder Linhomoeina > Superfamily Siphonolaimoidea > Family Linhomoeidae > Subfamily Desmolaiminae > Genus Metalinhomoeus

Metalinhomoeus setosus Chitwood, 1951

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Metalinhomoeus*	de Man, 1907	accepted genus name
*Monhysteriella*	Kreis, 1929	synonym

Literature

original description	Chitwood, B. G. (1951). North American marine nematodes. Texas J. Sci. 3(4): 617-672.
basis of record	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)
additional source	Heip, C.; Herman, R.; Vincx, M. (1983). Subtidal meiofauna of the North Sea: A review. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea. 51: 116-170.
additional source	Timm, R. W. (1967). New marine nematodes of the family Linhomoeidae from East Pakistan. Pakistan. Proc. Pakist. Acad. Sci. 4 (1) : 15-22.
additional source	Hope, W. D. (2009). Free-Living Marine Nematoda of the Gulf of Mexico. in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. Pp. 1111–1123.
additional source	Jensen, P. (1986). The nematode fauna in the sulphide-rich brine seep and adjacent bottoms of the East Flower Garden, NW Gulf of Mexico. II. Monhysterida. Zoologica Scripta. 15(1): 1-11.
additional source	Lorenzen, S. (1974). Die Nematodenfauna der sublitoralen Region der Deutschen Bucht, insbesondere im Titan-Abwassergebiet bei Helgoland. Veröff. Inst. Meeresforsch. Bremerh. 14: 305-327.
additional source	Mahmoudi, E.; Essid, N.; Beyrem, H.; Hedfi, A.; Boufahdja, F.; Aïssa, P.; Vitiello, P. (2008). Mussel-farming effects on Mediterranean benthic nematode communities. Nematology. 10 (3): 323-333.
taxonomy source	Gerlach, S. A. (1963). Über freilebende Meeresnematoden. Revision der Linhomoeidae. Zool. Jb. Syst. Bd. 90: 599-658.
ecology source	Decraemer, W.; Coomans, A. (1978). Scientific Report on the Belgian Expedition to The Great Barrier Reef in 1967. Nematodes XII. Ecological Notes on the Nematode Fauna in and around Mangroves on Lizard Island. Aust. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 29, 497-508.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Metalinhomoeus setosus Chitwood, 1951. 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:161187