Micoletzkyia

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Classification:

Enoplea
Enoplia Enoplida
Enoplina
Enoploidea
Phanodermatidae: Crenopharynginae

Micoletzkyia Ditlevsen, 1926

Type species of the genus: Micoletzkyia elegans Ditlevsen, 1926

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Large body size (5-10mm)
Pharyngeal capsule without outgrowths,
Cephalic capsule weakly developed or not observed (type I pharyngo-cephalic complex).
Head distinctly set off by a constriction.
Ocelli absent.
Amphideal fovea pocket shaped, 70% of head diam.
Three low lips. Labial and cephalic setae 6+6+4; inner labial setae very short (2-3 um); outer labial setae 0.7-1.4 capsule diam; cephalic setae slightly shorter than outer labial setae,
0.6ï¿½0.9 c.d.
Buccal cavity tiny,
Pharynx cylindrical, posteriorly appears glandular; excretory pore at 17-23% of pharynx length from anterior
Nerve ringat38-46% of pharynx length
Tail conico-cylindrical with relatively long filiform end, acute tip without spinneret or terminal setae.
Tail conico-cylindrical narrowing to filiform shape

Male:

Diorchic, opposed testes
Spicules longer than 2.0 cloacal body diameters (even 6-8 cbd)
Precloacal supplement tubular (if present)

\Female

Didelphic amphidelphic.
Vulva at mid-body

Micoletzkyia kamchatika (A) Whole nematode; (B) Cervical region, male.(C) Head, male, lateral view.(D)Tail male, lateral view.(E)Posterior male,ventral view.
Scale bars: (A) 500 um, (C,D)100 um, (B,E)200 um, (C)20 um, (D)100 um.
Drawings from Fadeeva et al 2015

Ref: Zograf et al., 2015; Shimada and Kakuf, 2019; Fadeeva et al., 2015

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Distribution:

Free-living marine nematodes from muddy bottom sediments

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References:

Fadeeva, N., Mordukhovich, V., Zograf, J. 2015. Newdeep-sea large free-living nematodes from macrobenthos in the Kurilï¿½Kamchatka Trench (the North-Western Pacific). Deep Sea Research II 3:95-103.

Shimada, D., Kakuf, K. 2019. Two new and one known species of Phanodermatidae (Nematoda: Enoplida) from Sagami Bay, Japan. Zootaxa 4608:484-500.

Urkmez, D., Sezgin, M. 2016. Micoletzkyia longispicula Huang & Cheng, 2011 (Nematoda: Phanodermatidae) in Turkey: First record outside the type locality Ecologica Montenegrina 5:66-69.

Zograf, J.K., Trebukhova, Y.A., Pavlyuk, O.N. 2015. Description of new species of Micoletzkyia (Enoplida, Phanodermatidae) with key to genera of family Phanodermatidae and pictorial key to Phanodermopsis species. Zootaxa 4032:277-289.