Rev: 08/26/2024
Synonyms:
Labial region of adults covered with cephalic tubercles that are best seen with SEM. (Unlike the simple lip region of Tricoma).
Cuticular rings composed of desmens which are rings of sedimentary particles held together by cementing materials (desmos).
Amphids large, distally swollen,
Tail withs two connection ring; the terminal main ring twice asas the ring anterior to it and ends in a swollen zone, bent ventrally with a terminal spinneret.
Ref: Shirayama and Hope, 1992; Annapurna et al., 2012
Reported from sublittoral sediment and kelp off the coast of Scotland; West Ireland; northeast England, intertidal seaweeds on Isles of Scilly; also from barua (500 m depth), northeast coast of India (Annapurna et al., 2012).
Free-living marine nematodes
Annapurna, C., Vijaya Bhanu, C., Srinivasa Rao, M., Sivalakshmi, M.V., Lilly M. .Cooper, G., Rao, Y.K. 2012. Free-living nematodes along the continental slope off northeast coast of India. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. India, 54:52-60.
Coomans, A., Vincx, M., Decraemer, W. 1985. Nematodes from a fresh-water pool on a coral island in the Solomon Islands. Hydrobiologia 123:265-281.
Decraemer, W. and Rho, H.S. 2013. 7.11 Order Desmoscolecida. In Schmidt-Rheas and de Gruyter, W. Handbook of Zoology.Gastrocticha, Cycloneuralia, Gnatifera. Volume 2: Nematoda
Platt, H. M. and R. M. Warwick. 1988. Free-living marine nematodes. Part II: British Chromadorids. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) NO. 38, Brill, E.J., Leiden, 501pp
Shirayama, Y. and Hope. W.D. 1992. Cephalic tubercles: a new character useful for the taxonomy of Desmoscolecida (Nematoda). Trans. Am. Microscop. Assoc: 111:211-222..