Monhysteridae ...
Monhysteridae de Man 1876 Although Xyalidae are associated mostly with euhaline areas, it is perceived that species of Monhysteridae are confined mainly to marine littoral, estuarine, brackish, limnic and even terrestrial environments (Lorenzen 1978, 1979; Jacobs 1987). Marine Monhysteridae also dwe...
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5658415 https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5658415 |
| Summary: | Monhysteridae de Man 1876 Although Xyalidae are associated mostly with euhaline areas, it is perceived that species of Monhysteridae are confined mainly to marine littoral, estuarine, brackish, limnic and even terrestrial environments (Lorenzen 1978, 1979; Jacobs 1987). Marine Monhysteridae also dwell in supertidal and tidal zones as well as in decaying plant material and on body surface of some marine animals, usually crustaceans, with a few species living in the sublitoral zone and thus are considered as true marine species (Lorenzen 1979). The only species thought to occur off coastal zones was believed to be Odontolaimus ceti, a symbiont of finback whales. However, investigation of deepsea meiofauna, revealed the presence of many small and minute species of Monhysteridae. Monhysteridae species have been recorded in deepsea sediments, with the use of more accurate methods of sampling and isolation of abyssal meiofauna such as multicorers and successive sieving through meshes with minimal mesh size of 30 ... : Published as part of Tchesunov, Alexei V. & Miljutina, Maria A., 2005, Three new minute nematode species of the superfamily Monhysteroidea from Arctic Abyss, pp. 19-32 in Zootaxa 1051 on pages 25-26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.169981 ... |
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