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

Thalassoalaimus de Man, 1893

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Thalassoalaimus brevicaudatus Vitiello, 1970
Thalassoalaimus filiformis Allgén, 1933
Thalassoalaimus mediterraneus Vitiello, 1970
Thalassoalaimus oxycauda Filipjev, 1927
Thalassoalaimus rotundicaudatus Filipjev, 1927
Thalassoalaimus septentrionalis Filipjev, 1927
Thalassoalaimus tardus de Man, 1893
Thalassoalaimus tenuis Allgén, 1935

Literature

original description	de Man, J. G. (1893). Cinquième Note sur les Nématodes libres de la mer du Nord et de la Manche. Mémoires de la Société zoologique de France. 6: 81-125.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
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	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	Shirayama, Y.; Ohta, S. (1990). Meiofauna in a cold-seep community off Hatsushima, central Japan. Journal of the Oceanographical Society of Japan. 46(3): 118-124.
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	Hopper, B. E. (1969). Marine nematodes of Canada. II. Marine nematodes from the Minas Basin - Scots Bay area of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. Can. J. Zool. 47(4): 671-690.
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	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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Martelli, A.; Russo, V. L.; Villares, G.; Ward, C. T. P. D. (2017). Two new species of free-living marine nematodes of the family Oxystominidae Chitwood, 1935 (Enoplida) with a review of the genus Thalassoalaimus de Man, 1893 from the Argentine coast. Zootaxa. 4250(4): 347-357.
additional source	Van Gaever, S.; Vanreusel, A.; Hughes, J.; Bett, B.; Kiriakoulakis, K. (1999). The macro- and micro-scale patchiness of meiobenthos associated with the Darwin Mounds (north-east Atlantic). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK. 84(3): 547-556.
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
NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Thalassoalaimus de Man, 1893. 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:2552