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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 species

M. cancellatus Gourbault & Boucher, 1981.

Notes

Published as part of Leduc, Daniel, 2015, New species of Thelonema, Metasphaerolaimus, and Monhystrella (Nematoda, Monhysterida) from Kermadec Trench, Southwest Pacific, pp. 1-19 in European Journal of Taxonomy 158 on page 9, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.158, http://zenodo.org/record/3788050

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/050D055EFFFDFF86E8BFC55FFD54F90D

Is part of
Journal article: 10.5852/ejt.2015.158 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3788050 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/F9347D26FFF5FF8EE96EC07BFF94FFC4 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/16E64AF8-518C-47F0-B3CF-6BA707C222FA (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/050D055EFFFDFF86E8BFC55FFD54F90D (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/163961977 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/22386/taxon/050D055EFFFDFF86E8BFC55FFD54F90D.taxon (URL)

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.