Paramarylynnia

 

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Classification:

Chromadorea
  Chromadoria
   Chromadorida
Chromadorina
             Chromadoroidea
                Cyatholaimidae
        Cyatholaiminae
       Paramarylynnia Huang & Zhang, 2007
Type species of genus: Paramarylynnia subventrosetata Huang & Zhang, 2007

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Morphology and Anatomy:

 

Females:

  • Didelphic, amphidelphic, ovaries reflexed

   
    Ref: Cunha, 2023

Males:  

  • Gubernaculum dilated not dentate
  • Precloacal supplemewnts may be present in some species but difficult to interpret from drawings (Cunha, 2023).

 

 


Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:
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Distribution:

Paramarylynnia species have been described from the Continental Shelf of the Yellow Sea (Temperate Northern Pacific) (Cunha, 2023).

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Paramarylynnia

Probably epistrate feeders

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Life Cycle:

 
 
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References:

Cunha, B.P. 2023. Diversity of free-living marine nematodes: taxonolmy and systematic of family Cyatholaimidae . PhD Thesis Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Brazil

Huang, Y., and Sun, J. 2011. Two new free-living marine nematode species of the genus Paramarylynnia (Chromadorida: Cyatholaimidae) from the Yellow Sea, China. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 9:395-401. doi:10.1017/S0025315410001177

Huang, Y., and Xu, K. 2013. Two new free-living nematode species (Nematoda: Cyatholaimidae) from intertidal sediments of the Yellow Sea, China. Cah. Biol. Mar. 54:1-10.

Huang, Y., and Zhang, Z. 2007. A new genus and new species of free-living marine nematodes from the Yellow Sea, China. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 87:717-722. doi: 10.1017/S002531540705432X

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