Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Araeolaimida > Superfamily Axonolaimoidea > Family Comesomatidae > Subfamily Dorylaimopsinae > Genus Dorylaimopsis

Dorylaimopsis punctata Ditlevsen, 1918

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Dorylaimopsis*	Ditlevsen, 1918	accepted genus name
*Mesonchium*	Cobb, 1920	synonym

Species group names

*Dorylaimopsis punctatus*	(Ditlevsen, 1918)	synonym

Literature

original description	Ditlevsen, H. (1919). Marine freeliving nematodes from Danish waters. Vidensk. Meddr. dansk naturh. Foren. 70(7): 147-214.
basis of record	De Smet, G.; Vincx, M.; Vanreusel, A.; Vanhove, S.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Steyaert, M. (2001). Nematoda - free living. In: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50. 161-174.
additional source	Jensen, P. (1983). Meiofaunal abundance and vertical zonation in a sublittoral soft bottom, with a test of the Haps corer. Marine Biology. 74: 319-326.
additional source	Austen, M. C.; Widdicombe, S. (1998). Experimental evidence of effects of the heart urchin Brissopsis lyrifera on associated subtidal meiobenthic nematode communities. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 222: 219-238.
additional source	Jensen, P. (1979). Revision of Comesomatidae (Nematoda). Zoologica Scripta. 8(2): 81-105.
additional source	Dando, P. R.; Austen, M. C.; Burke, Jr. R. A.; Kendall, M. A.; Kennicutt, II M. C.; Judd, A. G.; Moore, D. C.; O'Hara, S. C. M.; Schmaljohann, R.; Southward, A. J. (1991). Ecology of a North Sea pockmark with an active methane seep. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 70: 49-63.
additional source	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)
redescription	Allgén, C. A. (1959). Freeliving marine nematodes. Further zoological results of the Swedish Antarctic expedition, 1901-1903 under the direction of Dr. Otto Nordenskjold. V(2) P.A. Norstedt & Söner: Stockholm. 293 pp.
taxonomy source	Heip, C.; Herman, R.; Vincx, M. (1983). Subtidal meiofauna of the North Sea: A review. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea. 51: 116-170.
taxonomy source	Zhang, Z. (1992). Two new species of the genus Dorylaimopsis Ditlevsen, 1918 (Nematoda: Adenophorea, Comesomatidae) from the Bohai Sea, China. Chin. J. Oceanol. Limnol. 10 (1): 31-39.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Dorylaimopsis punctata Ditlevsen, 1918. 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:121349