Rev: 11/10/2024
Type species of the genus: Diplopeltula breviceps Gerlach, 1950
Synonyms:
Species of the genus Diplopeltula are quite different from each other so that it is rather difficult to establish a concise generic diagnosis: a combination of many different characters occurs in several species (Vincx and Gourbault, 1992).
Females:
Ref: Vincx and Gourbault, 1992; Annapurna et al., 2012; Leduc, 2017
Males:
Free-living marine nematodes. Species are reported from the North Sea, tropical regions and from the deep sea.
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.
Gerlach, S.A. 1950. Die Diplopeltiden, eine gruppe freilebender nematoden. Kieler Meeresforschungen, 7: 138-156
Leduc, D. 2017. Four new nematode species (Araeolaimida: Comesomatidae, Diplopeltidae) from the New Zealand continental slope. Zootaxa 4237 (2): 244-264
Vincx, M. and Gourbault, N. 1992. Six new species of the genus Diplopeltula (Nematoda: Diplopeltidae) with remarks on the heterogeneity of the taxon Hydrobiologia 230:165-178.