Microlaimus

 

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 Classification:

Chromadorea
  Chromadoria
   Desmodorida
Desmodorina
             Microlaimoidea
   Microlaimidae
    Microlaimus de Man, 1880
    Type species of the genus: Microlaimus globiceps De Man, 1880
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Morphology and Anatomy:

Ref: Kovalyev and Tshesunov, 2005

 



Microlaimus honestus.
5: male head; 6. Female head (bar=10um)
7: male spicules and gubernaculum (bar=50um); 8: Male tail (bar=10um).
Adapted from Kovalyev and Tshesunov, 2005

Microlaimus honestus. 10: Entire female (bar = 100um)
Adapted from Kovalyev and Tshesunov, 2005

Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:
 

 

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Distribution:

Predominantly marine but also some brackish water and soil-inhabiting species.

 

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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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Biology and Ecology:

   
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Life Cycle:

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Management:

 

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References:

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

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

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.

Yeates, et al. 1993. Feeding habits of soil nematodes. J. Nematology 25:315-331.

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