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Neodiplopeltula Holovachov & Boström 2018, gen. nov.

Creators

  • 1. Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE- 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden.

Description

Key to species of the genus Neodiplopeltula gen. nov. (see Table 6 for additional diagnostic characters)

1. Refractive periamphideal plates absent............... N. intermedia (Gerlach, 1954) gen. et comb. nov. – Refractive periamphideal plates present........................................................................................... 2

2. Refractive periamphideal plates connect on dorsal and ventral body sides..................................... 3 – Refractive periamphideal plates do not connect............................................................................... 4

3. Oral opening subdorsal; amphid 32–44 µm long........ N. onusta (Wieser, 1956) gen. et comb. nov. – Oral opening terminal; amphid 16–17 µm long.................................................................................................. N. obesa (Nguyen Vu Thahn, Nguyen Thahn Hien & Gagarin, 2012) gen. et comb. nov.

4. Oral opening terminal................................................... N. indica (Gerlach 1962) gen. et comb. nov. – Oral opening subdorsal..................................................................................................................... 5

5. Oral opening at level with or posterior to cephalic setae bases, 6–16 µm from anterior end............................................................................................. N. bathmanni (Jensen, 1991) gen. et comb. nov. – Oral opening anterior to cephalic setae bases, 1–3 µm from anterior end....................................... 6

6. Refractive periamphideal plates with incised margins; cephalic setae more than 8 µm long................................................................................................ N. incisa (Southern, 1914) gen. et comb. nov.

– Refractive periamphideal plates oval in shape; cephalic setae less than 8 µm long............................................................................................................... N. barentsi (Steiner, 1916) gen. et comb. nov.

Notes

Published as part of Holovachov, Oleksandr & Boström, Sven, 2018, Neodiplopeltula gen. nov. from the west coast of Sweden and reappraisal of the genus Diplopeltula Gerlach, 1950 (Nematoda, Diplopeltidae), pp. 1-34 in European Journal of Taxonomy 458 on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.458, http://zenodo.org/record/3826987

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Journal article: 10.5852/ejt.2018.458 (DOI)
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https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/22251/taxon/03AC5D376852FFE4FF7D54E6BF3DFCDB.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Diplopeltidae
Genus
Neodiplopeltula
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Araeolaimida
Phylum
Nematoda
Scientific name authorship
Holovachov & Boström
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Neodiplopeltula Holovachov & Boström, 2018

References

  • Wieser W. 1956. Free-living Nematodes and Other Small Invertebrates of Puget Sound Beaches. University of Washington Press.
  • Jensen P. 1991. Nine new and less known nematode species from the deep-sea benthos of the Norwegian Sea. Hydrobiologia 222: 57 - 76. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00017500
  • Southern R. 1914. Nemathelmaia, Kinorhyncha, and Chaetognatha (Clare Island Survey, Part 54). Proceedings of the the Royal Irish Academy 31: 1 - 80.
  • Steiner G. 1916. Freilebende Nematoden aus der Barentssee. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 39: 511 - 664.