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

Metadesmolaimus Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1935

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Metadesmolaimus aduncus Lorenzen, 1972
Metadesmolaimus aversivulva Gerlach, 1953
Metadesmolaimus gaelicus Platt, 1983
Metadesmolaimus gelana (Warwick & Platt, 1973) Lorenzen, 1977
Metadesmolaimus hamatus (Gerlach, 1956) Lorenzen, 1972
Metadesmolaimus heteroclitus Lorenzen, 1971
Metadesmolaimus labiosetosus Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1935
Metadesmolaimus pandus Lorenzen, 1971
Metadesmolaimus tersus (Gerlach, 1956) Lorenzen, 1972
Metadesmolaimus varians Lorenzen, 1972

Literature

original description	Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr. (1935). Additional notes to my monographs on the freeliving marine nemas of the Belgian coast I and II, written in collaboration with W. Adam and L.A. De Coninck, with some remarks on the ecology of Belgian nemas. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique = Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Natuurhistorisch Museum van België, 72 Koninklijk Natuurhistorisch Museum van België: Brussel. 36, 5 plates pp.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
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)
additional source	Guo, Y.; Helléouet, M.-N.; Boucher, G. (2008). Spatial patterns of meiofauna and diversity of nematode species assemblages in the Uvea lagoon (Loyalty Islands, South Pacific). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 88(5), 931–940.
additional source	Van Gaever, S.; Galéron, J.; Sibuet, M.; Vanreusel, A. (2009). Deep-sea habitat heterogeneity influence on meiofaunal communities in the Gulf of Guinea. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 56(23): 2259-2269.
additional source	Venekey, V.; Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Santos, P. J. P. (2010). Biodiversity of free-living marine nematodes on the coast of Brazil: a review. Zootaxa. 2568: 39–66.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Sebastian, S.; Raes, M.; De Mesel, I.; Vanreusel, A. (2007). Comparison of the nematode fauna from the Weddell Sea Abyssal Plain with two North Atlantic abyssal sites. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 54(16-17): 1727-1736.
additional source	Van Gaever, S.; Olu, K.; Derycke, S.; Vanreusel, A. (2009). Metazoan meiofaunal communities at cold seeps along the Norwegian margin: Influence of habitat heterogeneity and evidence for connection with shallow-water habitats. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 56(5): 772-785.
additional source	Vanaverbeke, J., K. Soetaert, C. Heip & A. Vanreusel. (1997). The metazoan meiobenthos along the continental slope of the Goban Spur (NE Atlantic). Journal of Sea Research. 38:93-107.
additional source	Verschelde, D.; Nicholas, W.; Vincx, M. (2006). A Review of the Genera Croconema Cobb, 1920 and Pseudochromadora Daday, 1899 (Nematoda, Desmodoroidea): New Species from the Coasts of Kenya and Australia. Hydrobiologia. 571, 17-40.
additional source	Gheskiere, T.; Vincx, M.; Urban-Malinga, B.; Rossano, C.; Scapini, F.; Degraer, S. (2005). Nematodes from wave-dominated sandy beaches: diversity, zonation patterns and testing of the isocommunities concept. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 62(1-2): 365-375.
additional source	Zeppilli, D. & R. Danovaro (2009). Meiofaunal diversity and assemblage structure in a shallow-water hydrothermal vent in the Pacific Ocean. Aquatic Biology. 5(1):75-84.
taxonomy source	Tchesunov, A. V.; Miljutin, D. M. (2006). Three new free-living nematode species (Monhysterida) from the Arctic abyss, with revision of the genus Eleutherolaimus Filipjev, 1922 (Linhomoeidae). Russian Journal of Nematology. 14(1): 57-75.
ecology source	Maria, T. F.; Esteves, A. M.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Vanreusel, A. (2011). The effect of the dominant polychaete Scolelepis squamata on nematode colonisation in sandy beach sediments: An experimental approach. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 94(3): 272-280.
ecology source	Ingels, J.; Vanhove, S.; De Mesel, I.; Vanreusel, A. (2006). The biodiversity and biogeography of the free-living nematode genera Desmodora and Desmodorella (family Desmodoridae) at both sides of the Scotia Arc. Polar Biology. 29(11): 936-949.
ecology source	Raes, M.; De Troch, M.; Ndaro, S. G. M.; Muthumbi, A.; Guilini, K.; Vanreusel, A. (2007). The structuring role of microhabitat type in coral degradation zones: a case study with marine nematodes from Kenya and Zanzibar. Coral Reefs. 26 (1): 13-126.
ecology source	Raes, M.; Vanreusel, A. (2006). Microhabitat type determines the composition of nematode communities associated with sediment-clogged cold-water coral framework in the Porcupine Seabight (NE Atlantic). Deep-Sea Research Part I. 53 (12): 880-1894.
ecology source	Vanaverbeke, J., K. Soetaert, C. Heip & A. Vanreusel. (1997). The metazoan meiobenthos along the continental slope of the Goban Spur (NE Atlantic). Journal of Sea Research. 38:93-107.
ecology source	Vanreusel, A., M. Vincx, D. Van Gansbeke & W. Gijselinck, W. (1992). Structural analysis of the meiobenthos communities of the shelf break area in two stations of the Gulf of Biscay (N.E. Atlantic). Belgian Journal of Zoology. 122(2):185-202.
identification resource	LI, T.; Ban, S.; Huang, Y. (2023). Two new species of Xyalidae Chitwood, 1951 (Nematoda, Monhysterida) from Chinese Sea Area. Zootaxa. 5369(2): 255-268.
identification resource	Guo, Y; Chen, Y.; Liu, M. (2016). Metadesmolaimus zhanggi sp. nov. (Nematoda: Xyalidae) from East China Sea, with a pictorial key to Metadesmolaimus species. Cah. Biol. Mar. 57: 73-79.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys
NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Metadesmolaimus Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1935. 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:2461