Description of Aegialoalaimusbratteni sp. n. from Skagerrak and a review of the genus (Aegialoalaimidae, Nematoda incertae sedis)
Author
Holovachov, Oleksandr
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2015
3
5738
5738
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e5738
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e5738
1314-2828--5738
Aegialoalaimus paratenuicaudatus
Allgen
, 1959
Materials
Type status:
Holotype
. Occurrence: catalogNumber:
SMNH Type-8762
; sex:
female
; Record Level: institutionID: Department of Zoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History; collectionID: invertebrate type collection
Description
The only type specimen is poorly preserved, its anterior end is dried out.
Taxon discussion
The original description is based on single female specimen (
Allgen
1959
: 132, Fig. 134). In general morphology, this specimen resembles members of the family
Comesomatidae
(Fig. 2B): amphid is multispiral; pharynx is muscular along its entire length, cylindrical in its anterior part and with weak basal swelling; female reproductive system didelphic, gonads outstretched. This species is considered species inquirenda et incerta sedis within the family
Comesomatidae
.