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Laimella Cobb 1920

Description

Genus Laimella Cobb, 1920

Diagnosis (emended from Hopper 1967; Jensen 1979; Barnes et al. 2012; Fonseca & Bezerra 2014; Rosli et al. 2014)

Sabatieriinae. Cuticle finely striated. Punctations in cuticle present or absent. Outer labial setae situated just anteriorly to cephalic setae; cephalic setae usually twice length of outer labial setae. Buccal cavity minute, three tiny teeth may be present, lumen of anterior-most part of the pharynx usually distinctly cuticularised. Amphideal fovea commonly situated just behind the cephalic setae (<1 hd), with less than 4 spiral turns. Spicule arcuate, enlarged proximally and cuticularised, usually 1–2 anal body diameters in length. Gubernacular apophyses paired, usually directed dorso-caudally. Precloacal supplements present as minute papillae or absent. Tail conicocylindrical, posterior portion elongated, cylindrical.

Type species: Laimella longicauda Cobb, 1920

List of valid species

The genus Laimella was reviewed by Jensen (1979). An emended generic diagnosis of Laimella is provided by Barnes et al. (2012), Fonseca & Bezerra (2014) and Rosli et al. (2014). According to NeMys (Vanaverbeke et al. 2016), eleven Laimella species have been described to date.

Other

Published as part of Hong, Jung-Ho, Tchesunov, Alexei V. & Lee, Wonchoel, 2016, Revision of Cervonema Wieser, 1954 and Laimella Cobb, 1920 (Nematoda: Comesomatidae) with descriptions of two species from East Sea, Korea, pp. 333-357 in Zootaxa 4098 (2) on page 347, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/256741

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Comesomatidae
Genus
Laimella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Desmodorida
Phylum
Nematoda
Scientific name authorship
Cobb
Species
longicauda
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Laimella Cobb, 1920 sec. Hong, Tchesunov & Lee, 2016

References

  • Cobb, N. A. (1920) One hundred new nemas. Contribution to a Science of Nematology (Baltimore), 9, 217 - 343.
  • Hopper, B. (1967) Free-living marine nematodes from Biscayne Bay, Florida, I. Comesomatidae: the male of Laimella longicauda Cobb, 1920, and description of Actarjania new genus. Marine Biology, 1, 140 - 144. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00386520
  • Jensen, P. (1979) Revision of Comesomatidae (Nematoda). Zoologica Scripta, 8, 81 - 105. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.1979. tb 00621. x
  • Barnes, N., Kim, H. G. & Lee, W. (2012) New species of free - living marine Sabatieriinae (Nematoda: Monhysterida: Comesomatidae) from around South Korea. Zootaxa, 3368, 263 - 290.
  • Fonseca G. & Bezerra T. N. (2014) Order Araeolaimida De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1933. In: Schmidt-Rhaesa A. (Ed.), Handbook of zoology, 1 St ed. De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 465 - 486.
  • Rosli, N., Leduc, D. & Probert P. K. (2014) Two new species and a new record of Comesomatidae (Nematoda, Araeolaimida) from Southern Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand. Zootaxa, 3900 (4), 505 - 525. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3900.4.3
  • Vanaverbeke, J, Bezerra, T. N., Braeckman, U., De Groote, A., De Meester, N., Deprez, T., Derycke, S., Guilini, K., Hauquier, F., Lins, L., Maria, T., Moens, T., Pape, E., Smol, N., Taheri, M., Van Campenhout, J., Vanreusel, A., Wu, X. & Vincx, M. (2016) NeMys: World Database of Free-Living Marine Nematodes. Available from: http: // nemys. ugent. be (Accessed 1 January 2016)