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Classification:

Chromadorea

  Chromadoria

   Monhysterida

Monhysterina

Sphaerolaimoidea

                 Linhomoeidae

       Terschellingia De Man, 1888

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Morphology and Anatomy:

The genus Terschellingia (Nematoda: Linhomoeidae) was erected by De Man (1888) based on the following characteristics:

•  four cephalic setae,
• buccal cavity small or absent
•  circular amphidial fovea located far forward on the head region.

Armenteros et al (2009)

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Distribution:

The genus name refers to the origin of the type specimens which were collected at Terschelling Island in The Netherlands.

Actually, species of thiss genus are cosmopolitan and very often numerically dominant in muddy subtidal ocean sediments

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Feeding:

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References:

Armenteros, M., Ruiz-Abierno, A., Vinck, M., and Decraemer, W. 2009. A morphometric analysis of the genus Terschellingia (Nematoda: Linhomoeidae) with redefinition of the genus and key to the species. J. Mar. Biol.. #2009:1-11 doi:10.1017/S0025315409000381

De Man J.G.  1888. Sur quelques ne´matodes libres de la Mer du Nord, nouveaux ou peu connus. Me´moires de la Socie´te´ Zoologique de France 1, 1 –51.

Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: June 06, 2022.