Species Identification: Find Species

Scientific Name	Distribution	Year
Amphimonhystera anechma	Northeast Atlantic	1914
Amphimonhystera paranechma	Northeast Atlantic
Amphimonhystrella megastoma	Northeast Atlantic	1961
Austronema spirurum	Northeast Atlantic	1914
Cenolaimus supersentiens	Northeast Atlantic	1933
Cobbia dentata	Northeast Atlantic	1953
Cobbia mawsoni	Northeast Atlantic	1930
Cobbia scutata	Northeast Atlantic	1956
Cobbia simplex	Northeast Atlantic	1929
Cobbia trefusiaeformis	Northeast Atlantic	1907
Cobbia truncata	Northeast Atlantic	1959
Cobbia urinator	Northeast Atlantic	1959
Cylindrotheristus fistulatus	Northeast Atlantic	1967
Cylindrotheristus normandicus	Northeast Atlantic	1890
Cylindrotheristus oxycercus	Northeast Atlantic
Cylindrotheristus oxyuroides	Northeast Atlantic	1931
Cylindrotheristus tenuispiculum	Northeast Atlantic	1918
Dactylaimus aequalis	Northeast Atlantic	1920
Diplolaimella allgeni	Northeast Atlantic
Diplolaimella ariakensis	Northeast Atlantic	2021
Diplolaimella chitwoodi	Western Central Atlantic.	1957
Diplolaimella monhysteroides	Western Central Atlantic.
Diplolaimella ocellata	Northeast Atlantic	1874
Diplolaimella ophthalmophora	Northeast Atlantic	1952
Diplolaimella punicea	Northeast Atlantic
Diplolaimella stagnosa	Northeast Atlantic	1966
Diplolaimelloides altherri	Northeast Atlantic	1954
Diplolaimelloides bruciei	Western Central Atlantic.	1970
Diplolaimelloides deconincki	Northeast Atlantic	1951
Diplolaimelloides meyli	Northeast Atlantic	1961
Echinotheristus cimbricus	Northeast Atlantic	1967
Echinotheristus teutonicus	Northeast Atlantic	1967
Elzalia floresi	Northeast Atlantic	1957
Elzalia mediterranea	Northeast Atlantic	1971
Elzalia speculifer	Northeast Atlantic	1961
Elzalia tenuis	Northeast Atlantic	1959
Filipjeva arctica	Northeast Atlantic	1928
Filipjeva meridionalis	Northeast Atlantic	1932
Filipjeva parameridionalis	Northeast Atlantic	1970
Gammarinema cambari	Northeast Atlantic	1933
Gammarinema cardisomae	Northeast Atlantic	1968
Gammarinema gammari	Northeast Atlantic	1953
Gammarinema ligiae	Northeast Atlantic	1967
Gonionchus villosus	Northeast Atlantic	1920
Halomonhystera hermesi	Northeast Atlantic	2015
Hieminema obliquorum	Northeast Atlantic	2005
Hofmaenneria brachystoma	Northeast Atlantic	1914
Hofmaenneria niddensis	Northeast Atlantic	1921
Litotes minuta	Northeast Atlantic	1920
Longilaimus brachyuris	Northeast Atlantic	1959
Longilaimus filicaudatus	Northeast Atlantic	1958
Megalamphis sphaerolaimoides	Northeast Atlantic	1961
Mesotheristus hirsutus	Northeast Atlantic	1967
Mesotheristus setosus	Northeast Atlantic	1874
Metadesmolaimus aduncus	Northeast Atlantic	1972
Metadesmolaimus hamatus	Northeast Atlantic	1956
Metadesmolaimus labiosetosus	Northeast Atlantic	1935
Metadesmolaimus pandus	Northeast Atlantic	1972
Metadesmolaimus tersus	Northeast Atlantic	1956
Monhystera africana	Northeast Atlantic	1964
Monhystera ampullocauda	Northeast Atlantic	1926
Monhystera andrassyi	Northeast Atlantic	1969
Monhystera annulifera	Northeast Atlantic	1905
Monhystera attenuata	Northeast Atlantic	1922
Monhystera barentsi	Northeast Atlantic	1916
Monhystera bipunctata	Northeast Atlantic	1906
Monhystera bothriolaima	Northeast Atlantic	1916
Monhystera cameroni	Northeast Atlantic	1958
Monhystera campbelli	Northeast Atlantic	1929
Monhystera capitata	Northeast Atlantic	1942
Monhystera chesapeakensis	Northeast Atlantic
Monhystera chitwoodi	Western Central Atlantic.	1958
Monhystera collaris	Western Central Atlantic.	1922
Monhystera conica	Western Central Atlantic.	1922
Monhystera dadayi	Western Central Atlantic.	1963
Monhystera denticulata	Western Central Atlantic.
Monhystera disjuncta	Northeast Atlantic	1865
Monhystera dispar	Northeast Atlantic	1865
Monhystera droebachiensis	Northeast Atlantic	1931
Monhystera dubicola	Northeast Atlantic	1967
Monhystera elegans	Northeast Atlantic	1928
Monhystera elegantula	Northeast Atlantic
Monhystera fasciculata	Northeast Atlantic	1921
Monhystera filicaudata	Northeast Atlantic
Monhystera filiformis	Northeast Atlantic
Monhystera fuelleborni	Northeast Atlantic	1908
Monhystera gerlachii	Northeast Atlantic	1954
Monhystera gracilicauda	Northeast Atlantic	1950
Monhystera gracilior	Northeast Atlantic	1938
Monhystera helvetica	Northeast Atlantic	1914
Monhystera heterolaima	Northeast Atlantic	1950
Monhystera insignis	Northeast Atlantic	1893
Monhystera islandica	Northeast Atlantic	1943
Monhystera izhorica	Northeast Atlantic	1929
Monhystera karachiensis	Northeast Atlantic	1963
Monhystera labiata	Northeast Atlantic	1903
Monhystera lemani	Northeast Atlantic	1969
Monhystera longicapitata	Northeast Atlantic	1922
Monhystera longicaudata	Northeast Atlantic	1865
Monhystera longissimecaudata	Northeast Atlantic	1935
Monhystera longistoma	Northeast Atlantic	1971
Monhystera luisae	Northeast Atlantic
Monhystera macquariensis	Northeast Atlantic	1929
Monhystera macramphis	Northeast Atlantic	1929
Monhystera macrura	Northeast Atlantic	1880
Monhystera magallanica	Northeast Atlantic	1956
Monhystera microphthalma	Northeast Atlantic
Monhystera minuta	Northeast Atlantic	1929
Monhystera multisetosa	Northeast Atlantic
Monhystera mwerazii	Northeast Atlantic	1957
Monhystera natans	Northeast Atlantic	1865
Monhystera ocellidecoris	Northeast Atlantic	1967
Monhystera pachyuris	Northeast Atlantic	1928
Monhystera paludicola	Northeast Atlantic	1880
Monhystera papuana	Northeast Atlantic	1899
Monhystera paraambigua	Northeast Atlantic	1933
Monhystera paraambiguoides	Northeast Atlantic	1932
Monhystera paradisjuncta	Northeast Atlantic	1943
Monhystera paramonovi	Northeast Atlantic	1929
Monhystera parasimplex	Northeast Atlantic	1943
Monhystera parasitica	Northeast Atlantic	1938
Monhystera parva	Northwest Atlantic.	1865
Monhystera parvella	Northwest Atlantic.	1931
Monhystera praevulvata	Northwest Atlantic.	1932
Monhystera pratensis	Northwest Atlantic.	1893
Monhystera propinqua	Northwest Atlantic.	1905
Monhystera psammophila	Northwest Atlantic.	1969
Monhystera pseudomacrura	Northwest Atlantic.	1971
Monhystera refringens	Northwest Pacific and Nor	1935
Monhystera rivularis	Northwest Pacific and Nor	1865
Monhystera rotundicapitata	Northwest Pacific and Nor	1922
Monhystera sabulicola	Northwest Pacific and Nor	1929
Monhystera septentrionalis	Antarctic Indian Ocean	1914
Monhystera similis	Northeast Atlantic	1873
Monhystera simplex	Northeast Atlantic	1880
Monhystera socialis	Northeast Atlantic	1874
Monhystera somereni	Southeast Pacific	1952
Monhystera spiralis	Southeast Pacific	1926
Monhystera stagnalis	Southeast Pacific	1865
Monhystera stewarti	Southeast Pacific	1971
Monhystera subfiliformis	Southeast Pacific	1918
Monhystera subrustica	Southeast Pacific	1906
Monhystera tasmaniensis	Southeast Pacific	1927
Monhystera tenuis	Southeast Pacific	1950
Monhystera thermophila	Southeast Pacific	1953
Monhystera tobagoensis	Southeast Pacific	1947
Monhystera trichura	Northeast Atlantic	1930
Monhystera tripyloides	Northeast Atlantic	1968
Monhystera uniformis	Northeast Atlantic	1914
Monhystera uria	Northeast Atlantic	1914
Monhystera villosa	Northeast Atlantic	1873
Monhystera vulgaris	Northeast Atlantic	1880
Monhystrella gracilis	Northeast Atlantic	1966
Monhystrella hastata	Northeast Atlantic
Monhystrella lepidura	Northeast Atlantic	1963
Monhystrella marina	Northeast Atlantic
Monhystrella paramacrura	Northeast Atlantic	1954
Monhystrella plectoides	Northeast Atlantic	1918
Monhystrium inquilinus	Northeast Atlantic	1969
Monhystrium transitans	Northeast Atlantic	1920
Monhystrium wilsoni	Northeast Atlantic	1915
Odontobius ceti	Northeast Atlantic	1934
Omicronema clavulatum	Northeast Atlantic	1957
Omicronema litorium	Northeast Atlantic	1920
Omicronema nidrosiense	Northeast Atlantic	1933
Omicronema truncatum	Northeast Atlantic	1950
Paramonohystera biforma	Northeast Atlantic	1956
Paramonohystera canicula	Northeast Atlantic	1967
Paramonohystera elliptica	Northeast Atlantic	1918
Paramonohystera longicaudata	Northeast Atlantic	1963
Paramonohystera megacephala	Northeast Atlantic	1916
Paramonohystera micramphis	Northeast Atlantic	1950
Paramonohystera paranormandica	Northeast Atlantic	1922
Paramonohystera pellucida	Northeast Atlantic	1920
Paramonohystera proteus	Northeast Atlantic	1956
Paramonohystera setosa	Northeast Atlantic	1918
Paramonohystera stricta	Northeast Atlantic	1956
Paramonohystera tschislenkoi	Northeast Atlantic	1971
Promonhystera faber	Northeast Atlantic	1956
Promonhystera tricuspidata	Northeast Atlantic	1956
Pseudosteineria anteferens	Northeast Atlantic	1956
Pseudosteineria anticipans	Northeast Atlantic	1956
Pseudosteineria coronata	Northeast Atlantic	1955
Pseudosteineria horrida	Northeast Atlantic	1916
Pseudotheristus circulus	Northeast Atlantic	1971
Pulchranemella setosa	Northeast Atlantic	1933
Rhynchonema brevituba	Northeast Atlantic
Rhynchonema deconincki	Northeast Atlantic
Rhynchonema gerlachi	Northeast Atlantic
Rhynchonema hirsutum	Western Central Atlantic.
Rhynchonema longituba	Western Central Atlantic.
Rhynchonema lyngei	Northeast Atlantic
Rhynchonema scutatum	Northeast Atlantic
Rhynchonema subsetosum	Northeast Atlantic
Rhynchonema wieseri	Northeast Atlantic
Sitadevinema dentiferum	Northeast Atlantic	1971
Sphaerotheristus bengalensis	Northeast Atlantic	1968
Sphaerotheristus macrostoma	Northeast Atlantic	1963
Sphaerotheristus supoti	Northeast Atlantic	1968
Spiramphinema convolutum	Northeast Atlantic	1956
Spiramphinema microcephalon	Northeast Atlantic	1942
Steineria ampullacea	Northeast Atlantic	1967
Steineria gerlachi	Northeast Atlantic	1959
Steineria phimifera	Northeast Atlantic	1959
Steineria polychaeta	Northeast Atlantic	1915
Theristus acer	Northeast Atlantic
Theristus ambronensis	Northeast Atlantic	1936
Theristus biarcospiculum	Northeast Atlantic
Theristus buetschlii	Northeast Atlantic
Theristus calx	Northeast Atlantic	1967
Theristus leptosoma	Northeast Atlantic
Theristus littoralis	Northeast Atlantic
Theristus modicus	Northeast Atlantic
Theristus oistospiculum	Northeast Atlantic	1932
Theristus otoplanobius	Northeast Atlantic
Theristus paraelaboratus	Northeast Atlantic
Theristus parambronensis	Northeast Atlantic
Theristus parvulus	Northeast Atlantic
Theristus polychaetophilus	Northeast Atlantic	1966
Theristus problematicus	Northeast Atlantic	1928
Theristus rhynchonemoides	Western Central Atlantic.	1961
Theristus wimmeri	Western Central Atlantic.	1959
Trichotheristus floridanus	Western Central Atlantic.	1967
Trichotheristus galeatus	Western Central Atlantic.	1967
Trichotheristus heterus	Western Central Atlantic.	1957
Trichotheristus mirabilis	Western Central Atlantic.	1933
Trichotheristus paramirabilis	Western Central Atlantic.	1955
Trichotheristus psammoides	Western Central Atlantic.	1970
Tripylium carcinicola	Western Central Atlantic.	1915
Wieserius fimbriatoides	Western Central Atlantic.	1964
Xenolaimus striatus	Western Central Atlantic.	1920
Xyala barbata	Western Central Atlantic.
Xyala exigua	Western Central Atlantic.
Xyala longicaudata	Western Central Atlantic.
Xyala striata	Western Central Atlantic.
Zygonemella striata	Western Central Atlantic.	1920

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Species Identification: Find Species

Family: Monhysteridae (See list of species below)

Family: Monhysteridae

(See list of species below)