An annotated checklist of the main representatives of meiobenthos from inland water bodies of Central and Southern Vietnam. I. Roundworms (Nematoda)
Author
Gusakov, Vladimir A.
Author
Gagarin, Vladimir G.
text
Zootaxa
2017
4300
1
1
43
journal article
32584
10.11646/zootaxa.4300.1.1
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1175-5326
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Family
Leptonchidae Thorne, 1935
21.
*
Proleptonchus
Lordello, 1955
sp.—
{29} (0, 4, 0, 0;
1
)
Population structure and abundance.
One juvenile individual and one female.
Ecology and distribution.
Edaphobiont or amphibiont. The nematodes of the genus
Proleptonchus
have been observed predominantly in soil biotopes. Only six out of 16 known species are known from water bodies in certain countries of Asia, Africa and North America (
Peña-Santiago 2006
;
Andrássy 2009b
; Nguyen
et al.
2012).
Remarks.
Earlier one species of the genus was reported from terrestrial habitats in Vietnam:
P. aestivus
Nguyen, Vu & Peña-Santiago, 2012
(Nguyen
et al.
2012). The female we found belongs to another, unidentified species.