Taxonomic review of Thoracostomopsidae (Nematoda, Enoplida): state of the art, list of valid species and dichotomous keys
Author
De Souza, João V.
0009-0009-4985-086X
https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0009 - 4985 - 086 X
Author
Maria, Tatiana F.
0000-0002-7553-2031
https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7553 - 2031
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-11-03
5361
4
463
496
https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5361.4.2/52207
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5361.4.2
1175-5326
10152589
DAB237DC-1444-4007-BCCA-CB92CBE66617
Subfamily
Enoplolaiminae
De Coninck, 1965
Diagnosis
by
Smol
et al.
(2014)
: Lips high. Buccal cavity always with three mandibles and three teeth. One mandible and one tooth together form a unit which can be moved back and forth by specialized pharyngeal muscles, whereby the frontal section of the unit is moved in line with the body axis. A pharyngeal gland opens through each tooth. All three teeth have the same length or the dorsal tooth is distinctly smaller than the two ventrosublateral teeth; the two ventrosublateral teeth always are equal in length. The genera are differentiated by the degree of development of the mandible-teeth complex.