Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Plectida > Suborder Plectina > Superfamily Leptolaimoidea > Family Leptolaimidae > Subfamily Leptolaiminae

Leptolaimoides Vitiello, 1971

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Leptolaimoides haploopis Jensen, 1978
Leptolaimoides thermastris (Lorenzen, 1966) Vitiello, 1971
Leptolaimoides tubulosus Vitiello, 1971

Literature

original description	Vitiello, P. (1971). Espèces nouvelles de Leptolaimidae (Nematoda) et description du genre Leptolaimoides n. gen. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 12: 419-432.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
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	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	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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Huang, Y.; Zhang, Z. (2006). Two new species of free-living marine nematodes (Trichotheristus articulatus sp. n. and Leptolaimoides punctatus sp. n.) from the Yellow Sea. Russian Journal of Nematology. 14 (1): 43-50.
additional source	Boury-Esnault, N., G. Bellan, D. Bellan-Santini, C.F. Boudouresque, P.Chevaldonné, A. Dias, D. Faget, J.G. Harmelin, M. Harmelin-Vivien, C. Lejeusne, T. Pérez, J. Vacelet, M. Verlaque. (2023). The Station Marine d'Endoume, Marseille: 150 years of natural history. Zootaxa. 5249(2): 213-252.
taxonomy source	Holovachov, O. (2015). Swedish Plectida (Nematoda). Part 9. The genus Leptolaimoides Vitiello, 1971. Zootaxa. 3955(1): 83.
taxonomy source	Lai-Phu, H.; Blome, D.; Vu Than, N.; Saint-Paul, U. (2009). Five new species of the genus Leptolaimoides Vitiello, 1971 (Nematoda: Leptolaimidae) from Can Gio mangrove biosphere reserve, Vietnam. Russian Journal of Nematology 17(1): 17-30.
ecology source	Leduc, D.; Probert, P.; Nodder, S. (2010). Influence of mesh size and core penetration on estimates of deep-sea nematode abundance, biomass, and diversity. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 57(10): 1354-1362.
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. Leptolaimoides Vitiello, 1971. 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:2406