Araeolaimus

Araeolaimus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Araeolaimida
Family: Araeolaimidae
Genus:
de Man, 1888[1]
Species

Many, including:

  • Araeolaimus demani (Schuurmans-Stekhoven, 1950) Wieser, 1956
  • Araeolaimus elegans de Man, 1888
  • Araeolaimus penelope[2]
  • Araeolaimus zosterae
Synonyms
  • Coinonema Cobb, 1920 (Gerlach, 1953; Gerlach & Riemann, 1973)
  • Parachromagaster Allgen, 1929 (see Hope & Murphy, 1972)

Araeolaimus is a genus of marine free living nematodes.

References

  1. ^ Sur quelques nématodes libres de la Mer du Nord, nouveaux ou peu connus. JG Man, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, 1888
  2. ^ Additions to the littoral fauna of Rockall, with a description of Araeolaimus penelope sp. nov.(Nematoda: Axonolaimidae). PG Moore, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the …, 1977