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Classification:

Chromadorea

  Chromadoria

  Desmoscolecida

    Desmoscolecina

Superfamily Desmoscolecoidea

       Gerlachius  Andrassy, 1974.

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Morphology and Anatomy:

• Cuticle extremely finely annulated, smooth appearance.
• Somatic setae sparse.
• Head truncated, not offset, with four cephalic setae at its base.
• Amphids large vesicular, largely subcephalic.
• Esophagus muscular, posteriorly tapered, with large overlapping dorsal gland.
• Pseudocoelomocytes present.
• Male with two testes ; spicules arched ; gubernaculum with apophysis.

Ref: Decraemer & Jensen, 1982; Decraemer and Rho, 2013

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Distribution:

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Feeding:

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Biology and Ecology:

Free-living marine nematodes

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References:

Decraemer, W. and Jensen, P. 1982. Revision of the subfamily Meyliinae De Coninck, 1965 (Nematoda: Desmoscolecoidea) with a discussion of its systematic position . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society75: 317-325.

Decraemwr, 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

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..

Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: November 22, 2022.