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Rhabditidae

Description

Rhabditidae sp. 1

(Figs 4 A, B; Table 2)

The three dead females (ZIHU 3325-3327) obtained were infested and colonized by fungi inside their bodies (Fig. 4 A, B).

Head rounded with no constriction, lateral lips with small amphidial aperture. Stoma cylindrical; cheilostom not sclerotized, glottoid apparatus isomorphic, metastom with two warts. Pharyngeal corpus with muscular median bulb. Reproductive system amphidelphic; vulva transverse, located near midbody. Rectum short, 0.9–1.1 abd length. Tail conical, 6.0–7.3 abd length.

The specimens resemble Caenorhabditis (Osche, 1952) Dougherty, 1953 in general features of the body.

Characters: a,b,c, de Man's ratios; V, position of vulva as a percentage of the body length from anterior end. * Value in ZIHU 3325 (L= 849).

Notes

Published as part of Kito, Kenji & Ohyama, Yoshikuni, 2008, Rhabditid nematodes found from a rocky coast contaminated with treated wastewater of Casey Station in East Antarctica, with a description of a new species of Dolichorhabditis Andrássy, 1983 (Nematoda: Rhabditidae), pp. 43-52 in Zootaxa 1850 on page 49, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183386

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Rhabditidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rhabditida
Phylum
Nematoda
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Osche, G. (1952) Systematik und Phylogenie der Gattung Rhabditis (Nematoda). Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Okologie und Geographie der Tiere, 81, 190 - 280.