Benthimermithidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Benthimermithida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Cycloneuralia Cladus: Nematoida Phylum: Nematoda Ordo: Benthimermithida

Type genus: Benthimermis Petter, 1980, by monotypy.

Petter, A.J. 1980. Une nouvelle famille de nématodes parasites d’invertébrés marins, les Benthimermithidae. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 55(2): 209–224. Reference page.

Petter, A.J. 1983. Description d’un nouveau genre de Benthimermithidae (Nematoda) présentant des utérus munis de glandes annexes. Annales de parasitologie humaine et comparée 58(2): 177–184. Reference page.
Tchesunov, A.V. 1997. [Marimermithid Nematodes: Anatomy, Position in the Nematode System, Phylogeny] (in Russian). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 76(11): 1283–1299. Reference page.
Tchesunov, A.V. 1997. Marimermithids (Nematoda): anatomy, taxonomy, and phylogeny. Russian Journal of Zoology 1(4): 440–455. Abstract Reference page.
Miljutin, D.M. 2006. The genus Trophomera Rubtzov & Platonova, 1974 with description of T. litoralis sp. n. (Nematoda: Benthimermithidae) from the tidal zone of the Kuril Archipelago and proposal of Benthimermis Petter, 1980 as a junior synonym. Nematology 8(3): 411–423. DOI: 10.1163/156854106778493457 Reference page.
Miljutin, D.M. & Miljutina, M.A. 2009. Description of Bathynema nodinauti gen. n., sp. n. and four new Trophomera species (Nematoda: Benthimermithidae) from the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (Eastern Tropic Pacific), supplemented with the keys to genera and species. Zootaxa 2096: 173–196. Abstract & excerpt. Full article (PDF) Reference page.