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

Metalinhomoeus de Man, 1907

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Monhysteriella*	Kreis, 1929	synonym

Children

Metalinhomoeus biformis Juario, 1974
Metalinhomoeus biratus Vitiello, 1969
Metalinhomoeus breviseta Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950
Metalinhomoeus effilatus Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1942
Metalinhomoeus filicaudatus (Allgén, 1930)
Metalinhomoeus flagellicaudatus Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1935
Metalinhomoeus gracilis (Kreis, 1929) Wieser, 1956
Metalinhomoeus longiseta Kreis, 1929
Metalinhomoeus maroeyensis Allgén, 1946
Metalinhomoeus microsetosus Allgén, 1953
Metalinhomoeus musaecauda Lorenzen, 1966
Metalinhomoeus paratypicus Vitiello, 1969
Metalinhomoeus pareffilatus Wieser, 1956
Metalinhomoeus parvasetosus Vitiello, 1969
Metalinhomoeus retrosetosus Wieser, 1956
Metalinhomoeus setosus Chitwood, 1951
Metalinhomoeus tenuicaudatus Allgén, 1935
Metalinhomoeus tristis (Allgén, 1933)
Metalinhomoeus typicus de Man, 1907
Metalinhomoeus zosterae Filipjev, 1918

Literature

original description	de Man, J. G. (1907). Sur quelques espèces nouvelles ou peu connues de nématodes libres habitant les côtes de la Zélande. Mém. Soc. zool. Fr. 20: 33-90.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
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	Vincx, M. (1989). Seasonal fluctuations and production of nematode communities in the Belgian coastal zone of the North Sea. Verhandelingen van het symposium "Invertebraten van Belgie". 57-66.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	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.
additional 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.
additional source	Van Gaever, S.; Raes, M.; Pasotti, F.; Vanreusel, A. (2009). Spatial scale and habitat-dependent diversity patterns in nematode communities in three seepage related sites along the Norwegian Sea margin. Marine Ecology. 31(1): 66-77.
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	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	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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Vincx, M.; Meire, P.; Heip, C. (1990). The distribution of Nematodes communities in the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Cah. Biol. Mar. 31:107-129.
additional source	Gerlach, S. A. (1977). Attraction to decaying organisms as a possible cause for patchy distribution of nematodes in a Bermuda beach. Ophelia. 16 (2): 151-165.
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.; Gheskiere, T.; Steyaert, M.; Vincx, M. (2002). Nematode assemblages from subtidal sandbanks in the Southern Bight of the North Sea: effect of small sedimentological differences. Journal of Sea Research. 48(3): 197-207.
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	Shirayama, Y. (1992). Studies of meiofauna collected from the Iheya Ridge during the dive 541 of the "SHINKAI 2000". Proc. JAMSTEC symp. deep Sea Research. 8, 287-291.
additional source	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	Timm, R. W. (1962). Marine nematodes of the family Linhomoeidae from the Arabian Sea at Karachi. Can. J. Zool. 40: 165-178.
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	Van Gaever, S.; Moodley, L.; De Beer, D.; Vanreusel, A. (2006). Meiobenthos at the Arctic Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano, with a parental-caring nematode thriving in sulphide-rich sediments. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 321: 143-155.
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	Vincx, M. (1989). Free-living marine nematodes from the southern bight of the North sea. Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België Academia Analecta. 51 (1): 39-70.
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	Commito, J.A. & G. Tita. (2002). Differential dispersal rates in an intertidal meiofauna assemblage. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 268(2): 237-256.
additional source	Gobin, J. F. (2007). Free-living marine nematodes of hard bottom substrates in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. Bulletin of Marine Science. 81(1): 73–84.
additional source	Gheskiere, T. (2000). Structurele diversiteit van nematodengemeenschappen van de Bligh Bank (Zuidelijke Bocht van de Noordzee).
additional source	Da Rocha, C. M. C.; Venekey, V.; Bezerra, T. N. C.; Souza, R. B. (2006). Phytal marine nematode assemblages and their relation with the macrophytes structural complexity in a Brazilian tropical rocky beach. Hydrobiologia. 553:219-230.
toxicology source	Vincx, M.; Heip, C.H.R. (1987). The use of meiobenthos in pollution monitoring studies: a review. CM Documents - ICES. (E33L:1166). ICES: [s.l.]. 18 pp.
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.
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	Soetaert, K.. M. Vinckx, J. Wittoeck & M.Tulkens. (1995). Meiobenthic distribution and nematode community structure in five European estuaries. Hydrobiologia. 311: 185-206.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys
NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Metalinhomoeus de Man, 1907. 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:2476