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Metasphaerolaimus Gourbault & Boucher 1981
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Description
Genus Metasphaerolaimus Gourbault & Boucher, 1981
Ceratosphaerolaimus Fadeeva, 1983: 1329, fig. 5. (see Jensen 1992: 8)
Diagnosis (modified from Fonseca & Bezerra 2014)
Cuticle finely striated. Six inner labial papillae; six outer labial setae at same level as four longer cephalic setae; eight groups of sub-cephalic setae. Amphideal fovea circular, situated posteriorly to buccal cavity. Buccal cavity strongly cuticularised with six H- or X-shaped mandibles, hooked anteriorly and articulating on cuticularised rim posteriorly. Pharynx cylindrical with strongly cuticularised lumen.
Type speciesM. cancellatus Gourbault & Boucher, 1981.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Sphaerolaimidae
- Genus
- Metasphaerolaimus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Monhysterida
- Phylum
- Nematoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Gourbault & Boucher
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Metasphaerolaimus Gourbault, 1981 sec. Leduc, 2015
References
- Gourbault N. & Boucher G. 1981. Nematodes abyssaux (Campagne Walda du N / O " Jean Charcot ") III. Une sous-famille et six especes nouvelles de Sphaerolaimidae. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris 4: 1035 - 1052.
- Fadeeva N. P. 1983. A contribution to the family Sphaerolaimidae Filipjev, 1918 (Nematoda, Monhysterida) from the Sea of Japan. Zoologichesky Zhurnal 9: 1321 - 1333.
- Jensen P. 1992. Predatory nematodes from the deep sea: description of species from the Norwegian Sea, diversity of feeding types and geographical distribution. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 33: 1 - 23.
- Fonseca G. & Bezerra T. N. 2014. Order Monhysterida. In: Schmidt-Rhaesa A. (ed.) Handbook of Zoology Gastrotricha, Cyclioneura and Gnathifera Volume 2, Nematoda: 435 - 465. De Gruyter, Hamburg.