Two new species of Enoplolaiminae (Enoplida: Thoracostomopsidae) from Río Negro and Chubut, Argentina
Author
Pastor, Catalina
Laboratorio de Meiofauna Marina (LAMEIMA) - Instituto de Diversidad y Evolución Austral (IDEAus-CONICET), Blvd. Alte. Brown 2915, U 9120 ACF Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina.
Author
Russo, Virginia Lo
Laboratorio de Meiofauna Marina (LAMEIMA) - Instituto de Diversidad y Evolución Austral (IDEAus-CONICET), Blvd. Alte. Brown 2915, U 9120 ACF Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina.
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-08-12
5020
2
337
351
journal article
4919
10.11646/zootaxa.5020.2.6
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1175-5326
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Genus
Enoplolaimus
de Man, 1893
Diagnosis
. From
Fadeeva & Zograf, 2010
.
Enoplolaiminae
. Cuticle usually smooth or finely striated. Cephalic region blunt, anteriorly rounded, with distinct external groove at base of cephalic capsule. Inner labial setae long, inserted at base of lip lobes; outer labial and cephalic setae situated at posterior edge of cephalic capsule. Three thin triangular lip-lobes with or without semi-lunar striation. Three broad, arched, mandibular plates, not solid medially as seen in
Enoploides
Saweljev, 1912
or
Epacanthion
Wieser, 1953
. Anterior curved rim with short pointed tips projecting into stoma. One dorsal and two ventrosublateral equal or unequal onchia. Cephalic capsule well developed, broad, posteriorly divided into six lobes. Single ventral pre-cloacal sensory supplementary organ present or absent. Spicules not very elongated, straight or arcuate, with or without apophyses.