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Classification:

Chromadorea

  Chromadoria

   Monhysterida

Monhysterina

Sphaerolaimoidea

                 Linhomoeidae

       Metalinhomoeus de Man, 1907

Type species of the genus:  Metalinhomoeus typicus de Man, 1907

    Synonyms:     

Deltanema Keis, 1929

Eumorpholaimus (Schulz, 1932), Tchesunov & Miljutin, 2006

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Morphology and Anatomy:

• Body cylindrical, slender
• Buccal cavity relatively small, unarmed, bno cuticularized ring
• Four cephalic setae, four sub-cephalic setae present
• Amphidial fovea circular
• Pharynx slender with well-developed posterior bulb

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Distribution:

Free-living marine nematodes. Often in muddy sediment in intertidal regions.

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Metalinhomoeus

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Life Cycle:

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Management:

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References:

Chen, C-A., Long, S.M. 2015. A new marine nematodes species, Metalinhomoeus ramsarensis (Linhomoeidae Filipjev, 1922) from Kuching Wetland National Park, Sarawak, Malaysia. Borneo Journal of Resource Science and Technology 5.

De Man, J.G. 1907. Sur quelques especes nouvelles au peuconnues de Nematodes libres vivant sur les cotes de la Zelande. Tijd. Nederland.Dierkund. Vereeniging 10:227-244.

Huang, Y., Guo, Y. 2022. Order Monhysterida Filipjev, 1929. In: Free-living Marine Nematodes from the East China Sea. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3836-7_{_}9

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Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: August 03, 2025.