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Classification:

Chromadorea

  Chromadoria

       Plectida

Leptolaimoidea

Leptolaimidae

        Leptolaimus De Man, 1876

 

      A genus of predominantly marine nematodes.

    Synonyms:

per Holovachov and Bostrom, 2004:

Aplectus Cobb, 1914

Boveelaimus Alekseev & Rassadnikova, 1977

Halaphanolaimus Southern, 1914

Dermatolaimus Steiner, 1916

Polylaimium Cobb, 1920

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Morphology and Anatomy:

• Large circular amphids about one lip-width from anterior end.
• Terminal esophageal bulb without valves.
• Tail with spinneret

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Distribution:

Commonly found in marine and brackish waters, usually in sand and clay sediments, sometimes in estuaries, sometimes in areas inhabited by mangroves. (Gharahkhani, et al., 2021; Holovachov and Brostrom, 2013)

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Feeding:

Speeies in estuarine environments reported as selective deposit bacterial feeders (Heip et al., 1998; Moens and Vincx, 1997; Tchesunov, 2015).

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Management:

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References:

Andrassy, I. 2005. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary Vol 1. Hungarian Natural History Museum.

Gharahkhani, A., E. Pourjam, O. Holovachov, M. Pedram. 2021. Phylogenetic relationships of Leptolaimus de Man, 1876 (Plectida: Leptolaimidae) with description of two new species from the Persian Gulf, Iran. Nematology 23:153-169.

Heip, C., Vincx, M., Vranken, G. 1985. The ecology of marine nematodes. Oceanography and marine biology. Ann Rev Lond 23:399-489

Holovachov, O and Brostrom, S. 2013.  Swedish Plectida (Nematoda). Part 4. The genus Leptolaimus de Man, 1876. Zootaxa 3739: 1-99.

Holovachov, O. and Bostrom, S. 2004. Morphology and systematics of the superfamilies Leptolaimoidea �rley, 1880 and Camacolaimoidea Micoletzky, 1924 (Nematoda: Plectida).  J. Nematode Morphology and Systematics 7:1-49.

Moens, T. and Vincx, M. 1997. Observations on the feeding ecology of estuarine nematodes. Journal of the Marine Biology Assoc. U.K. 77:211-227.

Tchesunov, A.V. 2015. Free-living nematode species (Nematoda) in hydrothermal sites of the North Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Helgoland Marine Research 69:343-384.

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Revised: June 05, 2024.