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 Classification:

Chromadorea

  Chromadoria

   Microlaimida

Microlaimina

             Microlaimoidea

   Paramicrolaimidae

    Paramicrolaimus Wieser, 1954

    Type species of the genus: Paramicrolaimus primus Wieser, 1954

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Morphology and Anatomy:

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Distribution:

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Feeding:

  Probably bacteria and perhaps sediments containing algae and protozoa. Epistrate feeders with scraping tooth in stoma  (Heip et al., 1998; Tchesunov, 2015)

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Life Cycle:

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Management:

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References:

De Coninck, L.A., Schuurmans Stekhoven, J.H. 1933 The freeliving marine nemas of the Belgian coast II. Mem. Mus Roy. Hist Nat Belg. 58, 163pp

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

Leduc, D., Verdon, V., Zhao, Z.Q. 2017. Phylogenetic position of the Paramicrolaimidae, description of a new Paramicrolaimus species and erection of a new order to accommodate the Microlaimoidea (Nematoda: Chromadorea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 20:1-18

Kovalyev, S.V. & Tchesunov, A.V. 2005. Taxonomic review of microlaimids with description of five species from the White Sea (Nematoda: Chromadoria). Zoosystematica Rossica, 14: 1-16.

Revkova, T.N. 2017. Two new species of free-living nematodes genera Microlaimus de Man, 1880 and Aponema Jensen, 1978 (Nematoda: Microlaimidae) from the Black Sea. Zootaxa 4344:387-394.

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

Wieser W. 1954. Free-living marine nematodes: II. Chromadoroidae. Acta Universita Lundensis 50: 1-148

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