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Classification:

Chromadorea

  Chromadoria

   Desmodorida

Desmodorina

             Deamodoroidea

                Desmodoridae

     Desmodorinae

        Zalonema Cobb, 1920

      

    Synonyms:
     

Heterodesmodora Micoletzky, 1924

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Morphology and Anatomy:

• Body cuticle with transverse striae
• Rounded triangular cephalic capsule
• Sub-cephalic setae present;
•  Pharynx slender and cylindrical, with pyriform terminal bulb
• Amphid apertures multispiral (2 to 4 turns).

Ref: Larrazabal-Filho et al., 2015

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Distribution:

Free-living marine nematodes described from deep sediment.

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Feeding:

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References:

Andrassy, I. 2005. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary, I (Nematoda errantia). Pedozoologica Hungarica 3. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary. 518p.

Cobb, N.A. (1920) One hundred new nemas (type species of 100 new genera). Contributions to a Science of Nematology (Cobb), 9, 217–343. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3272166

Larrazabal-Filho, A.L., Da Silva, M.C., Esteves, A.M. 2015. Four new species of free-living marine nematodes of the family Desmodoridae (Nematoda: esmodorida) and a redescription of Desmodora nini (Inglis, 1963)
from the continental shelf off northeastern Brazi. Zootaxa 4021 (1): 063–092 

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Revised: July 12, 2022.