Terrestrial nematodes from Jan Mayen Author Allgén, C. A. text Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1953 12 6 665 688 journal article 10.1080/00222935308654469 10811051 Dorylaimu s carteri Bast. acuticauda (de Man) . Dorylaimus acuticauda de Man, 1884, pp. 179-180 , pl. xxx, fig. 124. Dorylaimus carteri Bast. acuticauda (de Man) Micoletzky, 1922 , p. 489, fig. 226. Dimensions.— ♂ . Body -length = 2.850 mm ., max. width = 0. 0 9 2 mm ., o esophagus = 0.650 mm ., tail = 0.057 mm ., α. =30.98, β =4.38, y= 4.91. This species is very similar in the shape of the head t o D. carteri Bast. , but differs from the main species in the very short, straight, conical tail.