Family Leptosomatidae

                                 Revised 01/17/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

Class:  Enoplea

Sub-class:  Enoplia

Order:  Enoplida

Suborder:   Ironina

Superfamily:  Ironoidea

Family: Leptosomatidae Filipjev, 1916

Type genus of the family: Leptosomatum Bastian, 1865

A family of free-living marine nematodes. Generally among the larger free-living marine nematodes; occurring in macrobenthic assemblages.

Anatomy and Morphology:

Six subfamilies recognized:

Ref Smol et al, 2014


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References

Allgén, C.A., 1957. On a small collection of freeliving marine nematodes from Greenland and some other Arctic regions, with reviews and analyses of the compositions of all hitherto known Arctic nematode faunas.

Andrassy, I. 2007. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary II.  Hungarian Natural History Museum. 496pp.

Bongers, T.  1983. Revision of the genus Leptosomatum Bastian, 1865. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.  96:807-855.

Filipjev, L.N. 1916. Free living nematodes in the collection of the Zoological Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Petrograd.. Ezheg. Zool. Muz. Petrograd

Goodey, T and J.B. Goodey, 1963. Soil and Freshwater Nematodes. Methuen. London

Maggenti, A.R. 1981.  General Nematology. Springer Verlag, New York.

Platonova, T.A. and Galtsova, V.V. 1976. Nematodes and their Role in the Meiobenthos. Studies on Marine Fauna Vol XV(XXIII) Academy of Sciences USSR, Nauka, Leningrad,  Translated 1985, Smithsonian Institute.

Smol, N., Muthumbi, A., Sharma, J. 2014. Order Enoplida, 7.3. In Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (ed) Handbook of Zoology. De Gruyter, Berlin

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