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Classification:

Chromadorea

  Chromadoria

       Plectida

Camacolaimoidea

Camacolaimidae

        Setostephanolaimus Tchesunov, 1994

 

      Type species of the genus: Setostephanolaimus gandavensis (Jensen, 1976) Tchesunov, 1994

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Morphology and Anatomy:

The genus Setostephanolaimus was proposed by Tchesunov (1994) for those species of the genus Stephanolaimus Ditlevsen, 1918 which have outer labial sensilla thast are setiform in shape, not papilliform (Holovachov, 2014).

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Distribution:

Free-living marine nematodes; muddy bottom sediments.

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Feeding:

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References:

Fadeeva, N.P., Mordukhovich, W. 2007. New and known Leptolaimidae (Nematoda, Chromadoria) species in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan. ZoologicheskiÄ­ Zhurnal, 86:3-15.

Hao, Y., Hu, Q., Huang, Y. 2021. One new species of free-living marine nematode from the Yellow Sea, China. Zootaxa 4999:273-278. 

Holovachov, O. 2014. Swedish Plectida (Nematoda). Part 7. Setostephanolaimus tchesunovi sp. n. from the west coast of Sweden. Zootaxa 3847:576-582.

Tchesunov, A.V. 1994. Description of a marine free-living nematode Stephanolaimus graciosus sp. n. and erection of Setostephanolaimus gen. n. (Chromadoria: Leptolaimidae). Russian J. Nematology 2:79-82.

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Revised: May 21, 2024.