Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Enoplea > Subclass Enoplia > Order Enoplida > Suborder Ironina > Superfamily Ironoidea > Family Oxystominidae > Subfamily Halalaiminae

Halalaimus de Man, 1888

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Acoma*	Steiner, 1916	synonym
*Nuada*	Southern, 1914	synonym
*Tycnodora*	Cobb, 1920	synonym

Children

Halalaimus amphidellus Vitiello, 1970
Halalaimus amphistrius Vitiello, 1970
Halalaimus capitulatus Boucher, 1977
Halalaimus cirrhatus Gerlach, 1953
Halalaimus curvicaudatus Juario, 1974
Halalaimus delamarei Vitiello, 1970
Halalaimus diplocephalus Filipjev, 1927
Halalaimus filicorpus Vitiello, 1970
Halalaimus filum Gerlach, 1962
Halalaimus fletcheri Mawson, 1958
Halalaimus gracilis de Man, 1888
Halalaimus horridus Gerlach, 1956
Halalaimus isaitshikovi (Filipjev, 1927) Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1935
Halalaimus leptosoma (Southern, 1914) Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1935
Halalaimus longicaudatus (Filipjev, 1927) Schneider, 1939
Halalaimus longicollis Allgén, 1932
Halalaimus longisetosus Hopper, 1963
Halalaimus lutarus Vitiello, 1970
Halalaimus meyersi Wieser & Hopper, 1967
Halalaimus monstrocaudatus Vitiello, 1970
Halalaimus pachyderma (Filipjev, 1927) Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1935
Halalaimus pachyodoroides Vitiello, 1970
Halalaimus papillifer Gerlach, 1956
Halalaimus ponticus Filipjev, 1922
Halalaimus striatus Gerlach, 1956
Halalaimus terrestris Gerlach, 1959
Halalaimus turbidus Vitiello, 1970
Halalaimus zenkevitshi Filipjev, 1927

Literature

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basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
additional source	Copley, J. T. P.; Flint, H. C.; Ferrero, T. J.; Van Dover, C. L. (2007). Diversity of meiofauna and free-living nematodes in hydrothermal vant mussel beds on the northern and southern East Pacific Rise. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K.
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additional source	Danovaro, R.; Gambi, C.; Lampadariou, N.; Tselepides, A. (2008). Deep-sea nematode biodiversity in the Mediterranean basin: testing for longitudinal, bathymetric and energetic gradients. Ecography. 31(2): 231-244.
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.
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taxonomy source	Filipjev, I. N. (1927). Les Nématodes libres des mers septentrionales appartenant a la famille des Enoplidae. Arch. Naturgesch. 91 A (6): 1-216.
taxonomy source	Wieser, W. (1953). Reports of the Lund University Chile expedition 1948-1949: 1. Enoploidea. Lunds Universitets Årsskrift, N. F. 49(6): 1-155.
taxonomy source	Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr. (1935). Nematoda: Systematischer Teil, Nematoda errantia. Grimpe, G. and E. Wagler, Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee (Leipzig 1935). V b: 1-173.
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identification resource	Gagarin V.G. (2016). Three New Spesies of the Genus Halalaimus (Nematoda, Enoplida) from Mangrove Forest of Vietnam. Amurian zoological journal. 8(1): 3-19.
identification resource	Shimada, D.; Takeda, N.; Tsune, A. & Murakami, C. (2020). Three new species of free-living marine nematodes (Nematoda: Enoplida) from the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCFZ), North Pacific. Zootaxa. 4859 (4): 507–526.
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Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys
NeMys
NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Halalaimus de Man, 1888. 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:2548