LAOPHONTIDAE T. Scott, 1905


HETEROLAOPHONTE Lang, 1944

  • Heterolaophonte australis Lang, 1948
  • Heterolaophonte bisetosa Mielke, 1975
  • Heterolaophonte brevicornis (T. Scott, 1893) [Africa; marine]
  • Heterolaophonte brevipes Roe, 1958 [Ireland; marine ]
  • Heterolaophonte campbelliensis (Lang, 1934) [Feuerland; marine]
  • Heterolaophonte curvata curvata (Douwe, 1929) [France, Algerie; marine coastal waters]
  • Heterolaophonte curvata micrarthros Marcus & Por, 1960 [Black Sea]
  • Heterolaophonte denticulata Roe, 1958 [Ireland; marine coastal waters]
  • Heterolaophonte discophora (Willey, 1929) [north America; marine, tidal pools]
  • Heterolaophonte exigua (T. Scott, 1912) [Sud-Orkneys, Scotia Bay; marine]
  • Heterolaophonte furcata Noodt, 1958 [Canary Islands; marine]
  • Heterolaophonte hamatus Jakobi, 1954 [Brazil; marine interstitial]
  • Heterolaophonte hamondi Hicks, 1975 [Ireland, England; marine]
  • Heterolaophonte insignis Lang, 1948
  • Heterolaophonte letovae Huys, 1990
  • Heterolaophonte littoralis (T. & A. Scott, 1893) [Europe, north Africa; marine coastal waters]
  • Heterolaophonte livingstoni Apostolov & Pandourski, 2000 [Livingston Island, Antarctic; littoral]
  • Heterolaophonte longifurcata Lang, 1965 [USA; marine, tidal pools]
  • Heterolaophonte longisetigera Klie, 1950 [Ireland, Helgoland; marine]
  • Heterolaophonte manifera manifera (Wilson, 1932) [north America; marine]
  • Heterolaophonte manifera sulamericana Jakobi , 1954
  • Heterolaophonte mendax (Klie, 1939) [Island; marine]
  • Heterolaophonte minuta (Boeck, 1872) [north Europe, north America; marine intertidal, brackish interstitial]
  • Heterolaophonte murmanica Letova, 1982 [Murman; marine sand]
  • Heterolaophonte norvegica Drzycimski, 1968 [Norway; marine coastal waters]
  • Heterolaophonte oculata (Gurney, 1927) [north Africa, Egypt, Australia; wetlands]
  • Heterolaophonte pauciseta (Lang, 1936) [south Atlantic; marine]
  • Heterolaophonte phycobates (Monard, 1935) [France; marine]
  • Heterolaophonte pygmaea (T. Scott, 1893) [Sao Thomé Island, Red Sea; marine]
  • Heterolaophonte quinquespinosa (Sewell, 1924) [north Africa; marine]
  • Heterolaophonte rottenburgi Lang, 1948
  • Heterolaophonte serrulata Mielke, 1981 [Galapagos; marine interstitial]
  • Heterolaophonte setigera Lang, 1948
  • Heterolaophonte similis fortior Lang, 1948
  • Heterolaophonte sigmoides (Willey, 1930) [Bermuda; marine]
  • Heterolaophonte stroemi stroemi (Baird, 1834) [Europe, north America, Africa; lakes, lagoons]
  • Heterolaophonte stroemi brevicaudata (Monard, 1928) [Europe, marine]
  • Heterolaophonte stroemi paraminuta Noodt, 1955 [Maramara Sea]
  • Heterolaophonte tenuispina (Lang, 1934) [Campbell island; marine]
  • Heterolaophonte tupitskyi Chislenko, 1976 [Barents sea]
  • Heterolaophonte uncinata (Czerniavski, 1868) [Europe, Algerie; lakes, marine interstitial]
  • Heterolaophonte variabilis Lang, 1965 [USA; marine, rinsing of algae]
  • Heterolaophonte wellsi Letova, 1982 [Murman; marine sand]
  • Heterolaophonte sp. Apostolov & Pandourski (1999) [Antarctic; coastal waters]

    INCERATE SEDIS OR QUESTIONABLE SPECIES : Heterolaophonte laurentica (Nicholls, 1941); Heterolaophonte manifera sulamaericana Jakobi, 1954; Heterolaophonte wellsi Hamond, 1973; Heterolaophonte quinquespinosa (Sewell, 1924); Heterolaophonte parasigmoides Bozic, 1969; Heterolaophonte oculata (Gurney, 1927); Heterolaophonte manifera (Wilson, 1932)


    LIPOMELUM Fiers, 1986 [syn. APOLAOPHONTE Wells & Rao,1987]

  • Lipomelum adriaticum (Petkovski, 1955) [Adriatic Sea]
  • Lipomelum heteromelum Fiers, 1986 [West Indian Islands; marine interstitial]
  • Lipomelum hispidum (Wells & Rao, 1987) [Andaman, Nicobar islands; marine]
  • Lipomelum variabile Fiers, 1986 [West Indian Islands; marine interstitial]


    LOUREIROPHONTE Jakobi, 1953

    At present, the genus Loureirophonte Jakobi (1953) includes 12 species (Fiers, 1993; Bodin, 1997). They have been found in various sand and phytal samples; L. majacola Fiers (1993) lives in association with the crab Maja squinado.

  • Loureirophonte catharinensis Jakobi, 1953 [Brazil; marine coastal waters] * (1)
  • Loureirophonte cesareae (Por, 1964) [Israel ; marine interstitial] ** (2)
  • Loureirophonte furcata Fiers, 1993 [Oman; marine] * (3)
  • Loureirophonte isabelensis Mielke, 1981 [Galapagos; marine] * (4)
  • Loureirophonte laingensis Fiers, 1993 [New Guinea; marine] * (5)
  • Loureirophonte majacola Fiers, 1993 [Spain, Portugal; marine] ** (6)
  • Loureirophonte majahualensis Fiers, 1993 [Mexico; marine] * (7)
  • Loureirophonte mediterranea Fiers, 1993 [France, Spain; marine] ** (8)
  • Loureirophonte minutum Gomez & Boyko, 2006 [Eastern Island; marine interstitial] [PDF]
  • Loureirophonte paranensis Jakobi, 1953 [Brazil; marine coastal waters] * (9)
  • Loureirophonte psammophila Mielke, 2001 [Mexico; marine costal sediments] [PDF] *** (11)
  • Loureirophonte subterranea (Lang, 1965) [USA; ground waters] *** (10)

    * catharinensis-group (Fiers, 1993)
    ** cesareae-group (Fiers, 1993)
    *** subterranea-group (Fiers, 1993)



    Distribution map of the species of the genus Loureirophonte
    (after Mielke, 2001; modif.; Gomez & Boyko, 2006)



    MICTYRICOLA Nicholls, 1957

  • Mictyricola proxima Nicholls, 1957 [?: ?]
  • Mictyricola typica Nicholls, 1957 [?: ?]


    MICROLAOPHONTE Vervoort, 1964

  • Microlaophonte spongicola Vervoort, 1964 [Carolina Islands; marine interstitial]
  • Microlaophonte trisetosa Boxshall, 1976 [USA, Florida; marine ionterstitial]


    MOUREPHONTE Jakobi, 1953

  • Mourephonte longiseta (Nicholls, 1941) [south Australia; marine]
  • Mourephonte catharinensis Jakobi ,1953
  • Mourephonte longiseta Huys & Lee, 2000 [PDF]


    NAMAKOSIRAMIA Ho & Perkins, 1977

  • Namakosiramia californiensis Ho & Perkins, 1977 [USA; holothurids parasite]
  • Namakosiramia koreensis Kim, 1991


    ONYCHOCAMPTUS Daday, 1903

    According to Lee & Huys (1999) and Gomez (2001) the genus Onychocamptus presently includes 8 valid species, including Onychocamptus besnardi Jakobi,1954, formerly considered (Lang, 1965) as a form of Onychocamptus mohammed.

  • Onichocamptus anomalus Ranga Reddy, 1984 [India; lakes]
  • Onichocamptus bengalensis (Sewell, 1934) [India, Australia; brackish lakes, springs, lagoons, wetlands]
  • Onichocamptus besnardi Jakobi, 1954 [Brazil; marine coastal waters]
  • Onichocamptus fratrisaustralis Gomez, 2001 [Mexico; lagoon]
  • Onichocamptus krusensterni Schizas & Shirley, 1994 [Alaska; lagoons] (left) [PDF]
  • Onichocamptus mohammed (Blanchard & Richard, 1891) [cosmopolitan; brackish, inland and coastal waters]
  • Onichocamptus taifensis Kikuchi, Dai & Ito, 1993 [China; lakes]
  • Onichocamptus vitiospinulosa Shen & Tai, 1963 [Japan; fresh waters, lakes

    • QUESTIONABLE SPECIES : Onichocamptus chathamensis (Sars, 1905); Onichocamptus armiger (Gurney, 1927); Onichocamptus mirabilis (Gurney, 1927); Onichocamptus gladiator Vervoort, 1964


    LOBITELLA Lang, 1948

  • Lobitella apoda Lang, 1948 (questionable taxon)


    TROGLOPHONTE Huys & Lee, 2000


  • Troglophonte spelaea Huys & Lee, 2000


    PSEUDONYCHOCAMPTUS Lang, 1944

  • Pseudonychocamptus abbreviatus Sars, 1920) [France; brackish, fresh waters]
  • Pseudonychocamptus carthyi Hamond, 1968 [Australkia; ?]
  • Pseudonychocamptus colomboi Ceccherelli, 1988 [Adriatic Sea, lagoons]
  • Pseudonychocamptus koreni (Boeck, 1872) [France; brackish waters]
  • Pseudonychocamptus marinovi Apostolov & Petkovski, 1980 [Adriatic Sea]
  • Pseudonychocamptus paraproxima Lang, 1965
  • Pseudonychocamptus proximus (Sars, 1908) [Europe, north America; brackish waters]
  • Pseudonychocamptus spinifer Lang, 1965 [USA; marine tidal pools]

    SPECIES INCERTA : Pseudonychocamptus paraproximus Lang, 1965





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