Family Haliplectidae

Revised 06/23/25

Chromadorea
    Chromadoria
        Plectida
            Plectina
Haliplectoidea

     Haliplectidae Chitwood, 1951

Type genus of the family: Haliplectus Cobb, 1913

A family of mainly free-living marine nematodes with some soil forms.

Recent molecular analysis does not support the classification of the Haliplectidae and further revision of this classification will be necessary (Gharahkhani et al., 2022).
Characteristics of the family:.

Genera:   

Ref: Gharahkhani et al., 2022; Holovachov, 2014

 

 

References

Chitwood, B.G. 1951. North American marine nematodes. The Texas Journal of Science, 3:617-672.

Holovachov, O. 2014. 7.16 Order Plectida Gadea, 1973. In: Schmidt-RhaesaA. (Ed.). Handbook of zoology. Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia, Gnathifera. Volume 2: Nematoda. Berlin, Germany, De Gruyter, pp. 487-535.

Gharahkhani, A., Pourjam, E., Leduc, D., Pedram, M. 2022. The nematode genus Haliplectus Cobb, 1913 (Chromadorea: Haliplectidae): phylogenetic relationships, description of a new species from the Persian Gulf, southern Iran, and a tabular key to valid species. Nematology 24:639-655.

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