Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Enoplea > 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) Filipjev, 1927
Mesacanthion banale (Filipjev, 1927) Gerlach & Riemann, 1974
Mesacanthion breviseta (Filipjev, 1927) De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1933
Mesacanthion conicum (Filipjev, 1918) Filipjev, 1927
Mesacanthion diplechma (Southern, 1914) Filipjev, 1927
Mesacanthion ditlevseni (Filipjev, 1927) De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1933
Mesacanthion hirsutum Gerlach, 1953
Mesacanthion infantile (Ditlevsen, 1930) De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1933
Mesacanthion longispiculum Gerlach, 1954
Mesacanthion lucifer (Filipjev, 1927) De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1933
Mesacanthion majus (Filipjev, 1927) De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1933
Mesacanthion tenuicaudatum (Ssaweljev, 1912) De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1933
Mesacanthion virile (Ditlevsen, 1930) De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1933

Literature

original description	Filipjev, I. N. (1927). Les Nématodes libres des mers septentrionales appartenant a la famille des Enoplidae. Arch. Naturgesch. 91 A (6): 1-216.
basis of record	Jeong, R.; Tchesunov, A. V.; Lee, W. (2019). Bibliographic revision of Mesacanthion Filipjev, 1927 (Nematoda: Thoracostomopsidae) with description of a new species from Jeju Island, South Korea. PeerJ. 7: e8023.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
additional source	Gagarin, V. G.; Klerman, A. K. (2006). Two new species of Mesacanthion Filipjev, 1927 (Nematoda: Enoplida) from the Mediterranean Sea. Nematology. 8 (4): 533-538.
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	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. (1992). Predatory nematodes from the deep-sea: description of species from the Norwegian Sea, diversity of feeding types and geographical distribution. Cah. Biol. Mar. 33: 1-23.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Guilherme, B.C.; Da Silva M.C.; Esteves, A.M. (2009). Description of a new species of Epacanthion (Thoracostomopsidae, Nematoda) from Brazil and a modified key for species identification. Zootaxa. 2096: 99-108.
taxonomy source	Heip, C.; Herman, R.; Vincx, M. (1983). Subtidal meiofauna of the North Sea: A review. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea. 51: 116-170.
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	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	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.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Mesacanthion Filipjev, 1927. 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:2517