Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Monhysterida > Suborder Linhomoeina > Superfamily Siphonolaimoidea > Family Linhomoeidae > Subfamily Linhomoeinae

Linhomoeus Bastian, 1865

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Eulinhomoeus*	de Man, 1907	synonym
*Linhomoeus (Paralinhomoeus)*		synonym
*Paralinhomoeus*	de Man, 1907	synonym

Children

Linhomoeus (Eulinhomoeus)
Linhomoeus (Metalinhomoeus)
Linhomoeus brevibucca Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950
Linhomoeus brevisetosus Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1946
Linhomoeus caxinus Vitiello, 1969
Linhomoeus conicaudatus (Allgén, 1930)
Linhomoeus elongatus Bastian, 1865
Linhomoeus filaris Lorenzen, 1973
Linhomoeus filiformis Filipjev, 1918
Linhomoeus gracilisetosus (Allgén, 1946) Wieser, 1956
Linhomoeus hirsutus Bastian, 1865
Linhomoeus ilenensis (Allgén, 1933) Gerlach, 1963
Linhomoeus intermedius Allgen, 1929
Linhomoeus kornoeensis Allgén, 1929
Linhomoeus linurus Ssaweljev, 1912
Linhomoeus macramphis Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1942
Linhomoeus paralineatus Allgén, 1933
Linhomoeus paralongicaudatus (Allgén, 1934) Wieser, 1956
Linhomoeus pilosus (Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950) Wieser, 1956
Linhomoeus ponticus Filipjev, 1922
Linhomoeus tenuicaudatus Bütschli, 1874
Linhomoeus timmi Inglis, 1963
Linhomoeus trichurus (Allgén, 1930)
Linhomoeus viscosus Allgen, 1929
Paralinhomoeus amphilabiatus Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1942
Paralinhomoeus anteporus Vitiello, 1969
Paralinhomoeus bocki Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1946
Paralinhomoeus brevicaudatus Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950
Paralinhomoeus clavicaudatus Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950
Paralinhomoeus deconincki Groza-Rojancovski, 1972
Paralinhomoeus lepturus de Man, 1907
Paralinhomoeus lineatus (Ditlevsen, 1918) Allgén, 1959
Paralinhomoeus macquariensis (Allgén, 1929)
Paralinhomoeus ordinarius Wieser, 1956
Paralinhomoeus staurensis Allgén, 1940
Paralinhomoeus strandibrevicaudatus Allgén, 1934
Paralinhomoeus uniovarium Warwick, 1970

Literature

original description	Bastian, H. C. (1865). Monograph of the Anguillulidae, or Free Nematoids, Marine, Land, and Freshwater; with Descriptions of 100 New Species. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Volume XXV. Part II:73-184.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
additional source	Armenteros, M.; Vincx, M.; Decraemer, W. (2009). Cienfuegia gen. nov. (Xyalidae) and Pseudoterschellingia gen. nov. (Linhomoeidae), two new genera of free-living marine nematodes from the Caribbean Sea. Journal of Natural History. 43(17-18): 1067-1081.
additional source	Jensen, P. (1986). The nematode fauna in the sulphide-rich brine seep and adjacent bottoms of the East Flower Garden, NW Gulf of Mexico. IV. Ecological aspects. Marine Biology. 92: 489-503.
additional source	Jensen, P. (1986). The nematode fauna in the sulphide-rich brine seep and adjacent bottoms of the East Flower Garden, NW Gulf of Mexico. II. Monhysterida. Zoologica Scripta. 15(1): 1-11.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Gheskiere, T. (2000). Structurele diversiteit van nematodengemeenschappen van de Bligh Bank (Zuidelijke Bocht van de Noordzee).
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	Decraemer, W.; Coomans, A. (1978). Scientific Report on the Belgian Expedition to The Great Barrier Reef in 1967. Nematodes XII. Ecological Notes on the Nematode Fauna in and around Mangroves on Lizard Island. Aust. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 29, 497-508.
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	Van Gaever, S.; Olu, K.; Derycke, S.; Vanreusel, A. (2009). Metazoan meiofaunal communities at cold seeps along the Norwegian margin: Influence of habitat heterogeneity and evidence for connection with shallow-water habitats. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 56(5): 772-785.
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	De Oliveira Pinto, T.K.,Netto, S.A., Esteves, A.M., De Castro, F.J.V., Neres, P.F. and Da Silva, M.C. (2021). Free-living freshwater nematodes from Brazil: checklist of genera and regional patterns of diversity. Nematology. 0 (2021) 1-14.
additional source	Mahmoudi, E.; Essid, N.; Beyrem, H.; Hedfi, A.; Boufahdja, F.; Aïssa, P.; Vitiello, P. (2008). Mussel-farming effects on Mediterranean benthic nematode communities. Nematology. 10 (3): 323-333.
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	Dando, P. R.; Austen, M. C.; Burke, Jr. R. A.; Kendall, M. A.; Kennicutt, II M. C.; Judd, A. G.; Moore, D. C.; O'Hara, S. C. M.; Schmaljohann, R.; Southward, A. J. (1991). Ecology of a North Sea pockmark with an active methane seep. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 70: 49-63.
additional source	Gobin, J. F. (2007). Free-living marine nematodes of hard bottom substrates in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. Bulletin of Marine Science. 81(1): 73–84.
additional source	Maria, T. F.; Esteves, A. M.; Smol, N.; Vanreusel, A.; Decraemer, W. (2008). Nematodes from sandy beaches of Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Biociências, Porto Alegre. 16 (2), 92-103.
taxonomy source	Verschelde, D.; Nicholas, W.; Vincx, M. (2006). A Review of the Genera Croconema Cobb, 1920 and Pseudochromadora Daday, 1899 (Nematoda, Desmodoroidea): New Species from the Coasts of Kenya and Australia. Hydrobiologia. 571, 17-40.
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.
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.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys
NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Linhomoeus Bastian, 1865. 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:2490