Araeolaimus

Araeolaimus is a genus of marine free living nematodes.

Araeolaimus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Araeolaimida
Family: Araeolaimidae
Genus: Araeolaimus
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)

References
Wikispecies has information related to Araeolaimus.
  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


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