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Classification:

Chromadorea

  Chromadoria

       Plectida

Camacolaimoidea

Camacolaimidae

        Stephanolaimus Ditlevsen, 1918

 

      Type species of the genus: Stephanolaimus elegans Ditlevsen, 1918

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Morphology and Anatomy:

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Distribution:

Free-living marine nematodes; muddy bottom sediments.

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Stephanolaimus

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References:

Fadeeva, N.P., Mordukhovich, W. 2007. New and known Leptolaimidae (Nematoda, Chromadoria) species in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan. Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 86:3-15.

Hao, Y., Hu, Q., Huang, Y. 2021. One new species of free-living marine nematode from the Yellow Sea, China. Zootaxa 4999:273-278. 

Holovachov, O. 2014. Swedish Plectida (Nematoda). Part 7. Setostephanolaimus tchesunovi sp. n. from the west coast of Sweden. Zootaxa 3847:576-582.

Tchesunov, A.V. 1994. Description of a marine free-living nematode Stephanolaimus graciosus sp. n. and erection of Setostephanolaimus gen. n. (Chromadoria: Leptolaimidae). Russian J. Nematology 2:79-82.

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Revised: June 02, 2025.