Free-living marine nematodes of the family Sphaerolaimidae (Chromadoria, Monhysterida) from the mangroves of the Qeshm Island, Persian Gulf
Author
Tchesunov, Alexei V.
Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
Author
Eskandari, Ali
0000-0003-3902-7422
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of ZanJan, 45371 - 38791, ZanJan, Iran.
eskandari.a@znu.ac.ir
Author
Hosseinvand, Manouchehr
0000-0002-0472-1513
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of ZanJan, 45371 - 38791, ZanJan, Iran.
.houseinvand@gmail.com
Author
Hajializadeh, Parima
0000-0002-5997-7030
Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, University of Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-06-13
5468
3
523
540
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5468.3.6
journal article
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Parasphaerolaimus
Ditlevsen, 1918
Diagnosis.
(after
Lorenzen 1978
,
1981
,
1994
; Coomans & Eyualem-Abebe 2006,
Fonseca & Bezerra 2014
,
Zograf
et al
. 2017
,
Cavalcanti & Venekey 2017
, emended and amended)
Sphaerolaimidae
. Within cheilostoma, the longitudinally striated truncated conical compartment longer than the shagreen band. Narrow granular shagreen band often consisting of several (six) more or less well discernible elements; circular crest may be developed. Gymnostoma narrow. Stegostoma voluminous, conical, consisting of three large cuticular elements. Amphideal fovea at the level of gymnostoma or stegostoma.
Type
species:
Parasphaerolaimus paradoxus
Ditlevsen, 1918
.
The genus currently includes 14valid species(
NeMys 2023
).Taxonomic reviews of the genus
Parasphaerolaimus
together with pictorial and dichotomic keys for species identification have been given recently by
Zograf
et al.
(2017)
and
Cavalcanti & Venekey (2017)
.