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Epsilonematinae Steiner 1927
Description
Subfamily Epsilonematinae Steiner, 1927
Diagnosis (modified after Gourbault & Decraemer, 1996): Epsilonematidae. Ambulatory setae present (except in Perepsilonema), slender, more or less bent and arranged in four to seven longitudinal rows. Head a slightly asymmetrical cone, truncated apically. Pharynx with muscular terminal bulb (except in Triepsilonema). Female reproductive system didelphic with ovaries antidromously reflected (anterior branch only outstretched in Leptepsilonema (partim) and both branches outstretched in Triepsilonema and in some Leptepsilonema species).
Type genus: Epsilonema Steiner, 1927.
Notes
Published as part of Fedyaeva, Maria A., Neretina, Tatjana V., Konovalova, Olga P. & Tchesunov, Alexei V., 2016, Two known and one new species of Draconematidae and Epsilonematidae (Nematoda, Desmodorida) from the White Sea, North Russia, pp. 383-411 in Zootaxa 4121 (4) on page 399, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/265069
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Epsilonematidae
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Desmodorida
- Phylum
- Nematoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Steiner
- Taxon rank
- subFamily
- Taxonomic concept label
- Epsilonematinae Steiner, 1927 sec. Fedyaeva, Neretina, Konovalova & Tchesunov, 2016
References
- Steiner, G. (1927) Epsilonematidae, a new nemic family. Journal of Parasitology, 14, 65 - 66.
- Gourbault, N. & Decraemer, W. (1996) Marine nematodes of the family Epsilonematidae (Nemata): a synthesis with phylogenetic relationships. Nematologica, 42, 133 - 158. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1163 / 004325996 X 00011