New genus and two new species of the family Ethmolaimidae (Nematoda: Chromadorida), found in two different cold-seep environments
Author
Nara, Bezerra Tania
Author
Ellen, Pape
Author
Freija, Hauquier
Author
Ann, Vanreusel
Author
Jeroen, Ingels
text
Zootaxa
2013
3692
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7
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3692.1.4
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Subfamily
Neotonchinae
Wieser & Hopper, 1966
Diagnosis.
Ethmolaimidae
(originally
Cyatholaimidae
): buccal cavity elongate, depth greater than width; armed with very small to medium or large dorsal tooth located midway in the buccal cavity and with or without small subventral teeth. Cephalic sense organs 6+6+4. Pharynx with well-developed terminal bulb. Spicula of highly characteristic shape, proximal two-thirds fairly straight and nearly uniform thickness, distal third narrowed, cylindroid and with a slight S-shaped curvature. Precloacal supplements large, well-developed, cup-shaped. Tail plump, conoid, with bluntly rounded terminus.
Marine. (Platt, 1982; Lorenzen 1994) (
Type
genus:
Neotonchus Cobb, 1933
)
Genera belonging to
Neotonchinae
:
Comesa
Gerlach, 1956
,
Dystomanema
gen. nov.
,
Filitonchoides
Jensen, 1985
,
Filitonchus
Platt, 1982
,
Gomphionchus
Platt, 1982
,
Gomphionema
Wieser & Hopper, 1966
,
Nannolaimus
Cobb, 1920
, and
Neothonchus
Cobb, 1933. (
Fig 3
)