Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Nematoda > Class Adenophorea > Subclass Enoplia > Order Enoplida > Suborder Enoplina > Superfamily Enoploidea > Family Thoracostomopsidae > Subfamily Enoplolaiminae

Mesacanthion Filipjev, 1927

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Mesacanthion africanthiforme Warwick, 1970
Mesacanthion agubernatus Vitiello, 1971
Mesacanthion audax (Ditlevsen, 1918)
Mesacanthion banale (Filipjev, 1927)
Mesacanthion breviseta (Filipjev, 1927)
Mesacanthion conicum (Filipjev, 1918)
Mesacanthion diplechma (Southern, 1914)
Mesacanthion ditlevseni (Filipjev, 1927)
Mesacanthion hirsutum Gerlach, 1953
Mesacanthion infantile (Ditlevsen, 1930)
Mesacanthion longispiculum Gerlach, 1954
Mesacanthion lucifer (Filipjev, 1927)
Mesacanthion majus (Filipjev, 1927)
Mesacanthion tenuicaudatum (Ssaweljev, 1912)
Mesacanthion virile (Ditlevsen, 1930) De Conink & Stekhoven, 1933

Literature

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	Nomenclator Zoologicus

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

External Links

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Citation

WoRMS (2014). Mesacanthion Filipjev, 1927. In: Deprez, T. et al. (2005). NeMys. World list of free-living nematodes. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2517