Araeolaimus is a genus of marine free living nematodes.

Araeolaimus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Araeolaimida
Family: Araeolaimidae
Genus: Araeolaimus
de Man, 1888[1]
Species

Many, including:

Synonyms
  • Coinonema Cobb, 1920 (Gerlach, 1953; Gerlach & Riemann, 1973)
  • Parachromagaster Allgen, 1929 (see Hope & Murphy, 1972)

References

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  1. ^ Sur quelques nématodes libres de la Mer du Nord, nouveaux ou peu connus. JG Man, Mem. Soc. Zool. France, 1888
  2. ^ Additions to the littoral fauna of Rockall, with a description of Araeolaimus penelope sp. nov.(Nematoda: Axonolaimidae). PG Moore, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the …, 1977