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

Microlaimus acanthus (Jayasree & Warwick, 1977) Kovalyev & Tchesunov, 2005

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

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

Species group names

*Calomicrolaimus acanthus*	(Jayasree & Warwick, 1977) Jensen, 1978	synonym
*Paramicrolaimus acanthus*	Jayasree & Warwick, 1977	synonym

Literature

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	Manoel, A.; F. Neres, P.; Esteves, A. M. (2024). Three new species of free-living marine nematodes of the Microlaimus genus (Nematoda: Microlaimidae) from the continental shelf off northeastern Brazil (Atlantic Ocean). PeerJ. 12: e17355.
new combination reference	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.
new combination reference	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 acanthus (Jayasree & Warwick, 1977) Kovalyev & Tchesunov, 2005. 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:230633