Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Araeolaimida > Superfamily Axonolaimoidea > Family Comesomatidae > Subfamily Dorylaimopsinae

Dorylaimopsis Ditlevsen, 1918

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Mesonchium*	Cobb, 1920	synonym

Children

Dorylaimopsis angelae (Inglis, 1968)
Dorylaimopsis mediterranea Grimaldi-De Zio, 1968
Dorylaimopsis punctata Ditlevsen, 1918

Literature

original description	Ditlevsen, H. (1919). Marine freeliving nematodes from Danish waters. Vidensk. Meddr. dansk naturh. Foren. 70(7): 147-214.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Verschelde, D.; Nicholas, W.; Vincx, M. (2006). A Review of the Genera Croconema Cobb, 1920 and Pseudochromadora Daday, 1899 (Nematoda, Desmodoroidea): New Species from the Coasts of Kenya and Australia. Hydrobiologia. 571, 17-40.
additional source	Vincx, M. (1989). Free-living marine nematodes from the southern bight of the North sea. Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België Academia Analecta. 51 (1): 39-70.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Various Authors (2000). Nematode filing cabinet of the Marine Biology Section Ugent - in combination with the NemasLan Ms-Access database (published on CD-Rom, 2000)
additional source	Vincx, M.; Meire, P.; Heip, C. (1990). The distribution of Nematodes communities in the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Cah. Biol. Mar. 31:107-129.
additional source	Venekey, V.; Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Santos, P. J. P. (2010). Biodiversity of free-living marine nematodes on the coast of Brazil: a review. Zootaxa. 2568: 39–66.
additional source	Miljutin, D. M.; Gad, G.; Miljutina, M. M.; Mokievsky, V. O.; Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Esteves, A. M. (2010). The state of knowledge on deep-sea nematode taxonomy: how many valid species are known down there?. Marine Biodiversity. 40(3): 143-159.
additional source	De Jesús-Navarrete, A. (2007). Nematodos de los arrecifes de Isla Mujeres y Banco Chinchorro, Quintana Roo, México. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía. 42(2): 193 – 200.
taxonomy source	Tu, N.D.; Thanh Nguyen Vu; Smol, N.; Vanreusel, A. (2008). New genus Asymmelaimus gen. n., sp. n. and new marine nematode species of the subfamily Dorylaimopsinae de Coninck, 1965 (Comesomatidae Filipjev, 1918) from Halong Bay, Vietnam. Russian Journal of Nematology. 16 (1), 7-16.
taxonomy source	Belogurov, O. I. (1980). Two new species of marine nematodes and observations on the genus Dorylaimopsis. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 59 (3): 358-367.
ecology source	de Leonardis, C., R. Sandulli, J. Vanaverbeke, M. Vincx & S. de Zio. (2008). Meiofauna and nematode diversity in some Mediterranean subtidal areas of the Adriatic and Ionian Sea. Scientia Marina Barcelona (Spain). .72 (1): 5-13.
ecology source	Vanreusel, A., M. Vincx, D. Van Gansbeke & W. Gijselinck, W. (1992). Structural analysis of the meiobenthos communities of the shelf break area in two stations of the Gulf of Biscay (N.E. Atlantic). Belgian Journal of Zoology. 122(2):185-202.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Dorylaimopsis Ditlevsen, 1918. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2428