Published December 31, 2012 | Version v1
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Setosabatieria

Description

Key to all known species of Setosabatieria

1 Tail conico-cylindrical................................................................................ 2

- Tail conical.............................................................. S. conicauda n. sp. (New Zealand)

2 Arcuate or curved spicules............................................................................. 3

- L-shaped spicules with median hollow region...................... S. australis Leduc & Gwyther 2008 (New Zealand)

3 Spicules with central cuticularised strip................................................................... 4

- Spicules without central cuticularised strip................................................................ 5

4 Leaf-like extensions of the cuticle lateral to cloaca; 11–16 precloacal supplements.... S. hilarula (De Man 1922) Platt 1985 (North Sea, English Channel, Mediterranean, Northwest Atlantic, Southeast Atlantic, Bay of Bengal)

- Leaf-like projections absent; 9 precloacal supplements.................. S. jingjingae Guo & Warwick 2001 (Bohai Sea)

5 Amphideal fovea with more than 3 turns.................................................................. 6

- Amphideal fovea with 2.5 turns; gubernaculum with triangular apophysis. S. triangularis Riera et al. 2006 (Canary Islands)

6 Amphideal fovea with 4.25 turns; 3–4 sub-cephalic setae per file............ S. fibulata (Wieser 1954) Platt 1985 (Chile)

- Amphideal fovea with 3.5 turns; 6–8 sub-cephalic setae per file......... S. coomansi Huang & Zhang 2006 (Yellow Sea)

Notes

Published as part of D, Leduc, K, Probert P. & D, Nodder S., 2012, Two new free-living nematode species (Comesomatidae) from the continental slope of New Zealand, with keys and notes on distribution, pp. 40-55 in Zootaxa 3348 on page 51, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.210400

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Comesomatidae
Genus
Setosabatieria
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Desmodorida
Phylum
Nematoda
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Leduc, D. & Gwyther, J. (2008) Description of new species of Setosabatieria and Desmolaimus (Nematoda: Monhysterida) and a checklist of New Zealand free-living marine nematodes. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 42, 339 - 362.
  • de Man, J. G. (1922) Neue freilebende Nematoden aus der Zuidersee. Tidschrift der Nederlandsche Dierkundige Vereeniging, 2, 124 - 134.
  • Platt, H. M. (1985) The free-living marine nematode genus Sabatieria (Nematoda: Comesomatidae). Taxonomic revision and pictorial keys. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 83, 27 - 78.
  • Guo, Y. Q. & Warwick, R. M. (2001) Three new species of free-living marine nematodes from the Bohai Sea, China. Journal of Natural History, 35, 1575 - 1586.
  • Riera, R., Nunez, J. & Brito M. D. C. (2006) Two new species of Comesomatidae Filipjev, 1922 (Nematoda: Chromadorida) from sandy bottoms of Tenerife, Canary Islands. Zootaxa, 1126, 53 - 61.
  • Wieser, W. (1954) Free-living marine nematodes. II. Chromadoroidea. Acta Universitis Lundensis, 50 (16), 148 pp.
  • Huang, Y. & Zhang, Z. N. (2006) New species of free-living marine nematodes from the Yellow Sea, China. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 86, 271 - 281.