Electronic resources The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is available at Meiobenthic groups within the World www.marinespecies.org. The text on the Register of Marine Species WoRMS pages is open-access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution The aim of a World Register of Marine License (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted Species (WoRMS) is to provide an use as long as the provided citation is used. authoritative and comprehensive list of Upon request by the editors-in-charge, a names of marine organisms, including dedicated portal can be created for a information on synonymy. While the highest taxonomic group – referred to as a Global priority goes to valid names, other names in Species Database – giving more visibility to use are included so that this register can serve their group and recognition to the involved as a guide to interpret taxonomic literature. editors. It also allows editors to elaborate Next to , the system can also store more on their group and - in some cases – a distribution information, literature, attributes dedicated news feed and twitter messages. or traits, specimen information including An overview of the available registers for type localities and images. Total number of species names (accepted & unaccepted) available in each group (including all environments, excluding fossil species) Taxa # species Portal Cnidaria 22 560 through WoRMS

Platyhelminthes 24 602 http://www.marinespecies.org/turbellarians/

Nemertea 2 725 http://www.marinespecies.org/nemertea/ Gnathostomulida 113 through WoRMS Kinorhyncha 363 through WoRMS Loricifera 28 through WoRMS

Nematoda 10 855 http://nemys.ugent.be/ Rotifera 317 through WoRMS Gastrotricha 1 069 through WoRMS Priapulida 21 through WoRMS Sipuncula 1 294 through WoRMS through WoRMS (in part: Annelida 25 439 http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta)

Arthropoda - Copepoda 23 071 http://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/ Arthropoda - 1462 through WoRMS Halacaroidea

Arthropoda - Ostracoda 14 521 http://www.marinespecies.org/ostracoda/ Arthropoda - 14 through WoRMS Mystacocarida Arthropoda - 42 through WoRMS Tantulocarida

Tardigrada 1588 http://www.marinespecies.org/tardigrada/

Mollusca 113 831 http://www.molluscabase.org/ Bryozoa 8 169 through WoRMS Brachiopoda 679 through WoRMS through WoRMS (in part: Echinodermata 21 176 http://www.marinespecies.org/echinoidea & http://www.marinespecies.org/asteroidea) Chordata 59 753 through WoRMS Sarcomastigota 435 through WoRMS Ciliophora 4 188 through WoRMS

This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes 12 phyla containing meiobenthic representatives Bastami, Kazem Darvish, et al. "Nematode is given in the table. Next to the marine community structure in relation to metals in representatives, editors can also document the southern of Caspian Sea." Acta the non-marine taxa in their group, thereby Oceanologica Sinica 36.10 (2017): 79-86. creating a single entry-point for their cross- environment group. Caridi, Francesca, et al. "A new Arctic Within the attributes section of WoRMS, it is seepage site? Preliminary evidence from the goal to document the size class to which benthic community." EGU General each species belongs, so a general filter can Assembly Conference Abstracts. Vol. 19. be applied to group e.g. all meiofaunal 2017. species across taxa. This is still a work in progress. In addition, it will be documented Cesaroni, Lucia, et al. "Scanning electron whether species belong to the benthos or the microscopy in the taxonomical study of free- pelagos, taking into account the life stage. living marine nematodes." Microscopie 28.2 Keeping WoRMS and its Global Species (2017): 31-38. Databases up-to-date is a continuous process. New information is entered daily by the Cvitković, Ivan, et al. "Structure of taxonomic editors and by the members of our epibiontic and sediment meiofauna in the data management team. No database of this area invaded by invasive alga Caulerpa size is without errors and omissions. taxifolia." Marine Biology 164.1 (2017): 4. Although we cannot promise to make no errors, but we do promise to follow up and de Jesús-Navarrete, Alberto. "Littoral free give feedback on any communications living nematode fauna of Socorro Island, pointing out errors. All feedback is very Colima, Mexico." Hidrobiológica 17.1 welcome through [email protected]. (2017): 61-66.

Leen Vandepitte Fu, Sujing, et al. "Nematode responses to the invasion of exotic Spartina in mangrove wetlands in southern China." Estuaries and Coasts 40.5 (2017): 1437–1449. Recent Literature Fu, Sujing, Guy Boucher, and Lizhe Cai. "Two new ovoviviparous species of the Marine and general family Selachinematidae and Annapurna, C., et al. "Lorcifera, an under Sphaerolaimidae (Nematoda, Chromadorida known phyla: first record of higgins larva of & Monhysterida) from the northern South Armorloricus (Loricifera: Nanaloricidae) China Sea." Zootaxa 4317.1 (2017): 95-110. from Indian waters." 46.02 (2017): 317-321. Gao, Qun, and Yong Huang. "Oncholaimus Ansari, Kapuli Gani Mohamed Thameemul, zhangi sp. nov.(Oncholaimidae, Nematoda) and Punyasloke Bhadury. "An updated from the intertidal zone of the East China species checklist for free-living marine Sea." Chinese Journal of Oceanology and nematodes from the world’s largest Limnology 35.5 (2017): 1212-1217. mangrove ecosystem, Garraffoni, André Rinaldo Senna. Sundarbans." Zootaxa 4290.1 (2017): 177- "Checklist of Gastrotricha from Mato 191. Grosso do Sul state, Brazil." Iheringia. Série Bartels, Paul J., Lilvia J. Bradbury, and Zoologia 107 (2017): 1-4. Diane R. Nelson. "Marine tardigrades from Garraffoni, André RS, Maikon Di South Carolina, USA." Journal of the South Domenico, and Rick Hochberg. "New Carolina Academy of Science 15.1 (2017): records of marine Gastrotricha from São 7. Sebastião Island (Brazil) and the description

This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes 13 of a new species." Marine Biodiversity47.2 Argentine coast." Zootaxa 4250.4 (2017): (2017): 451-459. 347-357. Gąsiorowski, Ludwik, et al. "New insights Montagna, Paul A., et al. "Persistent impacts on the musculature of filospermoid to the deep soft‐bottom benthos one year Gnathostomulida." Zoomorphology 136.4 after the Deepwater Horizon (2017): 413-424. event." Integrated environmental assessment and management 13.2 (2017): 342-351. Gomes-Júnior, Edivaldo, et al. "A new species of Ligiarctus (Tardigrada, Morad, Tzachy Y., Zvy Dubinsky, and Arthrotardigrada) from the Brazilian David Iluz. "Meiobenthos Assemblages as continental shelf, Southwestern Atlantic Bioindicators for Coastal Pollution Ocean." Marine Biodiversity (2017): 1-8. Assessment." Science 7 (2017): 409-423. Hochberg*, Rick, et al. "A Tribute to Netto, Sergio A., and Gustavo Fonseca. William Hummon– Biologist "Regime shifts in coastal lagoons: Evidence Extraordinaire." Proceedings of the from free-living marine nematodes." PloS Biological Society of Washington 130.1 one12.2 (2017): e0172366. (2017): 113-119. Nguyen, Dinh Tu, et al. "Meiobenthos Janakiraman, A., et al. "Ecological communities for different mangrove types in restoration assessment of Adyar creek and Can Gio Biosphere Reserve, estuary using meiofaunal communities as Vietnam." Proceedings of DalRybVtuz ecological indicators for aquatic (Vladivostok). 41 (2017): 74-84 pollution." Regional Studies in Marine Oh, Je Hyeok, et al. "Effect of increased p Science 9 (2017): 135-144. CO2 in seawater on survival rate of different Jouili, Soufiane, et al. "Environmental developmental stages of the harpacticoid quality assessment of El Bibane lagoon copepod Tigriopus japonicus." Cells (Tunisia) using taxonomic and functional and Systems 21.3 (2017): 217-222. diversity of meiofauna and Pape, Ellen, et al. "Limited Spatial and nematodes." Journal of the Marine Temporal Variability in Meiofauna and Biological Association of the United Nematode Communities at Distant but Kingdom 97.8 (2017): 1593-1603. Environmentally Similar Sites in an Area of Kånneby, Tobias, and M. Antonio Todaro. Interest for Deep-Sea Mining." Frontiers in "A new species of Marine Science 4 (2017): 205. (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotidae) from the Pereira, Tiago José, et al. "Patterns of Swedish west coast." Zootaxa 4290.2 Spatial Variation of Meiofauna in Sandy (2017): 390-394. Beaches of Northwestern Mexico with Kiko, Rainer, et al. "Colonization of newly Contrasting Levels of forming Arctic sea ice by meiofauna: a case Disturbance." Thalassas: An International study for the future Arctic?." Polar Journal of Marine Sciences (2017): 1-11. Biology 40.6 (2017): 1277-1288. Prasath, D., et al. "New record of two free- Martelli, Antonela, et al. "Two new species living marine nematode species, of free-living marine nematodes of the Sphaerolaimus balticus and Sphaerolaimus family Oxystominidae Chitwood, 1935 islandicus (Nematoda: Sphaerolaimaidae) (Enoplida) with a review of the genus from Sipphighat mangrove region, South Thalassoalaimus de Man, 1893 from the Andaman." 46 (2017): 1105-1109.

This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes 14 Radziejewska, Teresa, Jonne Kotta, and Shi, Benze, and Kuidong Xu. Lech Kotwicki. "Sandy coasts." Biological "Spirobolbolaimus undulatus sp. nov. in Oceanography of the Baltic Sea. Springer intertidal sediment from the East China Sea, Netherlands, 2017. 457-482. with transfer of two Microlaimus species to Molgolaimus (Nematoda, Revkova, Tatiana N. "First records of Desmodorida)." Journal of the Marine Microlaimus tenuispiculum de Man, 1922 Biological Association of the United (Nematoda: Microlaimidae) from the Black Kingdom97.6 (2017): 1335-1342. Sea." Ecologica Montenegrina 14 (2017): 74-79. Stark, Jonathan S., et al. "The effects of hydrocarbons on meiofauna in marine Rosli, Norliana, et al. "Review of recent sediments in Antarctica." Journal of trends in ecological studies of deep-sea Experimental Marine Biology and meiofauna, with focus on patterns and Ecology 496 (2017): 56-73. processes at small to regional spatial scales." Marine Biodiversity (2017): 1-22. Struck, Torsten H., et al. "Two new species in the annelid genus Stygocapitella Rubal, Marcos, et al. "A new Batillipes (Orbiniida, Parergodrilidae) with comments (Tardigrada, Heterotardigrada, on their biogeography." Zootaxa 4286.3 Batillipedidae) from North Portugal (2017): 301-332. (Atlantic Ocean)." Marine Biodiversity 47.3 (2017): 921-928. Tarhan, Lidya G. "Meiofauna mute the Cambrian Explosion." Nature Ecology & Ruiz-Abierno, Alexei, and Maickel Evolution 1.10 (2017): 1423. Armenteros. "Coral reef habitats strongly influence the diversity of macro-and Tchesunov, Alexei V. "Free-living meiobenthos in the Caribbean." Marine nematodes of the genus Syringolaimus de Biodiversity 47.1 (2017): 101-111. Man, 1888 (Nematoda, Enoplida, Ironidae) from the Angola Basin, South-East Atlantic Sahoo, Gobardhan, et al. "Defaunation of Abyss." Zootaxa 4306.4 (2017): 478-500. meiofauna in Mumbai bay (India)-A severely polluted area." Regional Studies in Thai, Tran Thanh, et al. "MEIOFAUNA IN Marine Science 16 (2017): 98-108. THE MANGROVE–SHRIMP FARMS PONDS, CA MAU PROVINCE." Journal Sahoo, Gobardhan, et al. "Epibiotic of Science and Technology 55.3 (2017): 271. communities (microalgae and meiofauna) on the pneumatophores of Avicennia officinalis Yanko-Hombach, Valentina V., et al. (L.)." Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf "Meiobenthos as an indicator of gaseous Science (2017). hydrocarbon reservoirs under floor of the Black sea." (2017). Joint Plenary Santos, T. M. T., and V. Venekey. Conference and Field Trip of IGCP 610 and "Meiofauna and free-living nematodes in INQUA IFG POCAS Palermo, Italy, 1-9 volcanic sands of a remote South Atlantic, October 2017: 224-229 oceanic island (Trindade, Brazil)." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the Yin, Shengle, et al. "Seasonal dynamics of United Kingdom (2017): 1-16. meiofaunal distribution in the Dagu River Estuary, Jiaozhou Bay, China." Acta Sergeeva, Nelli G., and Derya Ürkmez. Oceanologica Sinica 36.12 (2017): 79-86. "Current views on the diversity and distribution of deep-water meiobenthos at Zainuri, Muhammad, Sutrisno Anggoro, and the Turkish shelf (Black Sea)." Ecologica Hermin Pancasakti Kusumaningrum. Montenegrina 14 (2017): 60-73. "Proximate Content of

This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes 15 “Klekap”(Microphytobenthos and Their on their occurrence, distribution and Associated Meiofauna) from Milk-Fish ecological relevance. Nematology 19 Pond." IOP Conference Series: Earth and (6):627-644 Environmental Science. Vol. 55. No. 1. IOP Garraffoni ARS (2017) Checklist of Publishing, 2017. Gastrotricha from Mato Grosso do Sul state, Freshwater Brazil. Iheringia Série Zoologia 107:doi: 10.1590/1678-4766e2017104 Arican C, Traunspurger W, Spann N (2017) The influence of thiacloprid on the feeding Garraffoni ARS, Araujo TQ, Lourenço AP, behaviour of the copepod, Diacyclops Guidi L, Balsamo M (2017) A new genus bicuspidatus, preying on nematodes. and new species of freshwater Nematology 19:1201-1215 Chaetonotidae (Gastrotricha: ) from Brazil with phylogenetic position Baranov V, Milosevic D, Kurz MJ, inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial Zarnetske JP, Sabater F, Marti E, Robertson DNA sequences. Systematics and AL, Brandt T, Sorolla A, Lewandowski J Biodiversity 15 (1):49-62 (2017) Helophyte impacts on the response of hyporheic invertebrate communities to Gusakov, Vladimir A., and Vladimir G. inundation events in intermittent streams. Gagarin. "An annotated checklist of the Ecohydrology doi: 10.1002/eco.1857 main representatives of meiobenthos from inland water bodies of Central and Southern Bozkurt A (2017) First Record of Vietnam. I. Roundworms Epactophanes richardi Mrazek, 1893 (Nematoda)." Zootaxa 4300.1 (2017): 1-43. (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Camptocamptidae) for Turkish Inland Haegerbaeumer A, Höss S, Heininger P, Waters. Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Traunspurger W (2017) Is Caenorhabditis Aquatic Sciences 17 (1):25-29 elegans representative of freshwater nematode species in toxicity testing? Chambord S, Tackx M, Chauvet E, Escolar Environmental Science and Pollution G, Colas F (2017) Two microcrustaceans Research doi: 10.1007/s11356-017-0714- affect microbial and macroinvertebrate- 7:1-10 driven litter breakdown. Freshwater Biology 62 (3):530-543 Haegerbaeumer A, Höss S, Heininger P, Traunspurger W (2018) Response of da Silva GL, Metzelthin MH, da Costa T, nematode communities to metals and PAHs Rocha MS, Silva DE, Ferla NJ, da Silva OS in freshwater microcosms. Ecotoxicology (2017) Responses of water mite assemblages and environmental safety 148:244-253 (Acari) to environmental parameters at irrigated rice cultivation fields and native Haegerbaeumer A, Höss S, Ristau K, Claus lakes. Zoologia (Curitiba) 34:doi: E, Heininger P, Traunspurger W (2017) The 10.3897/zoologia.3834.e19988 use of meiofauna in freshwater sediment assessments: Structural and functional Drazina T, Spoljar M, Primc B, Habdija I responses of meiobenthic communities to (2017) Distribution of rotifers and other metal and organics contamination. meiofauna in the bryophytes and hyporheic Ecological Indicators 78:512-525 zone of a karst hydrosystem-an example of a nested community. Marine and Freshwater Kolicka M (2017) New Arctic Gastrotrich Research 68 (1):43-52 — Three (Chaetonotidae) from Longyearbyen (Spitsbergen, Svalbard Du Preez G, Majdi N, Swart A, Archipelago). Annales Zoologici 67:131- Traunspurger W, Fourie H (2017) 180 Nematodes in caves: a historical perspective

This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes 16 Kolicka M, Gadawski P, Dabert M (2017) A with descriptions of three new species. new species of freshwater Chaetonotidae Zootaxa 4318 (1):1-46 (Gastrotricha, Chaetonotida) from Obodska Spoljar M, Zhang C, Drazina T, Zhao G, Cave (Montenegro) based on morphological Lajtner J, Radonic G (2017) Development of and molecular characters. European Journal submerged macrophyte and epiphyton in a of Taxonomy 354:1-30 flow-through system: Assessment and Kreuzinger-Janik B, Brinke M, modelling predictions in interconnected Traunspurger W, Majdi N (2017) Life reservoirs. Ecological Indicators 75:145-154 history traits of the free-living nematode, Tsiafouli MA, Bhusal DR, Sgardelis SP Plectus acuminatus Bastian, 1865, and (2017) Nematode community indices for responses to cadmium exposure. microhabitat type and large scale landscape Nematology 19 (6):645-654 properties. Ecological Indicators 73:472-479 Mendoza G, Traunspurger W, Palomo A, Veras, Tatiane Barbosa, et al. "Interação rio- Catalan J (2017) Nematode distributions as aquífero e a meiofauna do ambiente spatial null models for macroinvertebrate hiporreico." Águas Subterrâneas 31.1 species richness across environmental (2017): 20-35. gradients: A case from mountain lakes. Ecology and evolution 7 (9):3016-3028 Wiackowski K, Kocerba-Soroka W (2017) Selective predation by a harpacticoid Olson DS, Janssen J (2017) Early feeding of copepod on ciliates in phytotelmata: a round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) fry. laboratory experiment. Hydrobiologia 790 Journal of Great Lakes Research 43 (4):728- (1):13-22 736

Parry LA, Boggiani PC, Condon DJ, Garwood RJ, Leme JM, McIlroy D, Brasier Forthcoming. MD, Trindade R, Campanha GAC, Pacheco As a rule, the list of publications contains LAF (2017) Ichnological evidence for printed papers only, not “on-line first”. As meiofaunal bilaterians from the terminal an exception, we put here the reference to Ediacaran and earliest Cambrian of Brazil. important review, which will open the paper Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 (10):1455- collection on a topic of great importance: 1464 Zeppilli, D., Leduc, D., Fontanier, C. et al. Ptatscheck C, Putzki H, Traunspurger W “Characteristics of meiofauna in extreme (2017) Impact of deposit-feeding marine ecosystems: a review” Marine chironomid larvae (Chironomus riparius) on Biodiversity (2017). meiofauna and protozoans. Freshwater https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-017-0815-z Science 36 (4):796-804 Rosati M, Rossetti G, Cantonati M, Pieri V, Roca JR, Mesquita-Joanes F (2017) Are aquatic assemblages from small water bodies more stochastic in dryer climates? An analysis of ostracod spring metacommunities. Hydrobiologia 793 (1):199-212 Shearn R, Schön I, Martens K, Halse S, Krawiec J, Koenders A (2017) Patterns of genetic divergence in the Ilyodromus amplicolis lineage (Crustacea, Ostracoda),

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