Rev: 02/21/2024
Platonova Mordukhovich, Semenchenko, Fadeeva & Zograf, 2019
Type speciesd of the genus: Platanova magna Mordukhovich, Semenchenko, Fadeeva & Zograf, 2019
Note: The genus name honors Tatyana Alekseevna Platonova, a Russian nematologist who studied the family Leptosomatidae intensively.
Synonyms:
Genus Platonova differs from other known Synonchinae by:
Characteristics:
Male:
Ref: Mordukhovich et al., 2019
Female:
Amphidelphic; gonads antidromic; gonads opposed and reflexed.
Vulva at mid body
Deep-sea nematodes; species of the family Leptosomatidae are reporterd to occur frequently in macrobenthic samples from the North-Western Pacific ocean. Reportd at depths of 3300 to 4500 meters below sea level in the Kuril–Kamchatka Trench and adjacent areas.
Mordukhovich, V.V., Semenchenko, A.A., Fadeeva, N.P., Zograf, J.K. 2019. One new genus and two new free-living deep-sea nematode species with discussion of phylogeny of the family Leptosomatidae Filipjev, 1916. Progress in Oceanography, 178: doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2019.102160
Platonova, T.A., 1970. On the Taxonomy of the Leptosomatidae (Nematoda) of the Mediterranean Sea and of the Adjacent Waters of the Atlantic [O sistematike Leptosomatidae (Nematoda) Sredizemnogo Morya i prilezhashchikh vod Atlantiki]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 49:1298-1305.
Platonova, T.A., 1976. Lower Enoplida (free-living marine nematodes) of the seas of the USSR (in Russian). Issledovaniya Fauny Morei (Nematody i ikh rol' v meiobentose) 15:3-164.
Platonova, T.A., 1979. Structure of the head end and system of the subfamily Synonchinae (Nematoda, Enoplida, Leptosomatidae) (Struktura golovnogo kontsa i sistema podsemeistva Synonchinae (Nematoda, Enoplida, Leptosomatidae)). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 58 1117-1129.