treatments-xml/data/A0/6C/87/A06C87CCFFE9FFA624B97792868CFB00.xml
2024-06-21 12:45:58 +02:00

207 lines
21 KiB
XML
Raw Blame History

This file contains invisible Unicode characters

This file contains invisible Unicode characters that are indistinguishable to humans but may be processed differently by a computer. If you think that this is intentional, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to reveal them.

<document id="DC15EAFAED352BA3FA5771784A7257F4" ID-DOI="10.5281/zenodo.273682" ID-GBIF-Dataset="f34d8caf-3abc-445e-9910-6d56dbc39c29" ID-ISSN="1175­5326" ID-Zenodo-Dep="273682" IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe" IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe" IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe" checkinTime="1459806314734" checkinUser="plazi" docAuthor="Villalobos, Cristina De, Zanca, Fernanda &amp; Spiridonov, Sergei" docDate="2007" docId="A06C87CCFFE9FFA624B97792868CFB00" docLanguage="en" docName="zt01397p045.pdf" docOrigin="Zootaxa 1397" docStyle="DocumentStyle:6581673A57F01A3145754A1E615EDFF0.4:Zootaxa.2007-2008.journal_article" docStyleId="6581673A57F01A3145754A1E615EDFF0" docStyleName="Zootaxa.2007-2008.journal_article" docStyleVersion="4" docTitle="Chordodes aquaeductus Kirjanova 1950" docType="treatment" docVersion="7" lastPageNumber="43" masterDocId="5C55FFB4FFEDFFA2242E7705867CFFB1" masterDocTitle="Fine morphology of the cuticle surface of Chordodes anthophorus and reinterpretation of C. aquaeductus, C. ferganensis and C. oscillatus (Gordiida Nematomorpha)" masterLastPageNumber="45" masterPageNumber="39" pageNumber="43" updateTime="1698220612002" updateUser="plazi">
<mods:mods id="1841414E396CDDA8CA7DBF9373764647" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
<mods:titleInfo id="2C6A30D2A11F1A3CA8604B6CFB2A6E6D">
<mods:title id="C1E7639B6F24E396252D6919C016B14F">Fine morphology of the cuticle surface of Chordodes anthophorus and reinterpretation of C. aquaeductus, C. ferganensis and C. oscillatus (Gordiida Nematomorpha)</mods:title>
</mods:titleInfo>
<mods:name id="BE2054E5930ABD6977E41AC13000DCF6" type="personal">
<mods:role id="A4585E5B1D3DB221E017FB68B45B8E41">
<mods:roleTerm id="9B43531FB113DD539F977C3240CFD4E5">Author</mods:roleTerm>
</mods:role>
<mods:namePart id="E9F51D1EBAD5FF36BE455FE24A8C39C9">Villalobos, Cristina De</mods:namePart>
</mods:name>
<mods:name id="D9161189134A774F38846471BE8A05F7" type="personal">
<mods:role id="E661B97DBD56E6AC0E0A56FB83EB6EAD">
<mods:roleTerm id="21DE9C3495A5A455E3FA6275B7179947">Author</mods:roleTerm>
</mods:role>
<mods:namePart id="5D59304B1F8720D0929B45DC11524003">Zanca, Fernanda</mods:namePart>
</mods:name>
<mods:name id="900979F115664FDE040A42C4DFDD1EF1" type="personal">
<mods:role id="7165040E068831D43EB8019584EE3679">
<mods:roleTerm id="D7A3D2C116F8A028539D5CC1BBFF5F50">Author</mods:roleTerm>
</mods:role>
<mods:namePart id="D754A5B2E9CF93242D6700CCC243A1CC">Spiridonov, Sergei</mods:namePart>
</mods:name>
<mods:typeOfResource id="FB206118D93D30D6EB1912FE135540E6">text</mods:typeOfResource>
<mods:relatedItem id="2B93BC88E307179B85CC9CF7A1546F62" type="host">
<mods:titleInfo id="087C66D21B5180FCFEA14F9C4F1233E5">
<mods:title id="8657A6880AF60B9F37074C0EFA071700">Zootaxa</mods:title>
</mods:titleInfo>
<mods:part id="9BB01EFE19C3358EE2E1059A9122D45F">
<mods:date id="AB96C9D3084DD21FB935FBD08CBC6EB3">2007</mods:date>
<mods:detail id="2372655E8840112C257300409B38B414" type="volume">
<mods:number id="73DD907E3567FF764078F7807D1876CC">1397</mods:number>
</mods:detail>
<mods:extent id="25578CB78CB1C25AC5D8897BDA967CED" unit="page">
<mods:start id="4AF1279B020A33350F1E012D54026F0D">39</mods:start>
<mods:end id="FE409CDC00CDE91CDC02B04A2D80DD12">45</mods:end>
</mods:extent>
</mods:part>
</mods:relatedItem>
<mods:classification id="E1485A8E761131CBD3D1877ABDD5C5F1">journal article</mods:classification>
<mods:identifier id="DC1971807F27F4EC39763823376DEDAD" type="DOI">10.5281/zenodo.273682</mods:identifier>
<mods:identifier id="6D58239FFA0CFF1540E820EB79C7B320" type="GBIF-Dataset">f34d8caf-3abc-445e-9910-6d56dbc39c29</mods:identifier>
<mods:identifier id="EDF472D1009FBC22D1FB7A6A58E60545" type="ISSN">1175­5326</mods:identifier>
<mods:identifier id="19B6CAD1CAD8FAD049BEB5BA2F838E02" type="Zenodo-Dep">273682</mods:identifier>
</mods:mods>
<treatment id="A06C87CCFFE9FFA624B97792868CFB00" ID-DOI="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6247042" ID-GBIF-Taxon="119353025" ID-Zenodo-Dep="6247042" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:A06C87CCFFE9FFA624B97792868CFB00" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/A06C87CCFFE9FFA624B97792868CFB00" lastPageNumber="43" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
<subSubSection id="60DF6551FFE9FFA624B97792875CFF65" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" type="nomenclature">
<paragraph id="287A36DAFFE9FFA624B9779284EAFF00" blockId="4.[151,662,151,212]" box="[151,662,151,177]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
<heading id="733281B6FFE9FFA624B9779284EAFF00" bold="true" box="[151,662,151,177]" fontSize="11" level="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" reason="1">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA624B9779284EAFF00" bold="true" box="[151,662,151,177]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
[
<taxonomicName id="EFC54D59FFE9FFA6248F779284F3FF00" authority="Kirjanova 1950" authorityName="Kirjanova" authorityYear="1950" box="[161,655,151,177]" class="Gordioida" family="Chordodidae" genus="Chordodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Gordioidea" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" phylum="Nematomorpha" rank="species" species="aquaeductus">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA6248F779287BFFF00" bold="true" box="[161,451,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Chordodes aquaeductus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="4C544B2BFFE9FFA625E5779284F3FF00" author="Kirjanova" box="[459,655,151,177]" pageId="4" pageNumber="45" refString="Kirjanova, E. S. (1950) Nematomorpha from the basin of the river Serawshan. Chordodes aquaeductus. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk, 9, 255 - 280." type="journal article" year="1950">Kirjanova 1950</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
]
</emphasis>
</heading>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="287A36DAFFE9FFA624B977BF875CFF65" blockId="4.[151,662,151,212]" box="[151,288,186,212]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
(
<figureCitation id="B0FE2A5FFFE9FFA624B177BF877EFF65" box="[159,258,186,212]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="3.[151,244,1865,1886]" captionTargetBox="[275,1315,392,1829]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[272,1315,389,1841]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 3. Cuticle of the midbody: (A) specimen labelled as “ Chordodes moutoni ” (ZIS 97); (B) [Chordodes aquaeductus] (ZIS 90); (C and D) [Chordodes ferganensis] (ZIS 100); (C) Cuticle of the body with simple, tubercle, crowned and circumcluster areoles (numbering as in Fig. 1 B), (D) Cluster of crowned areoles with long filaments (5) along the ventral midline; (E and F) [Chordodes oscillatus] (ZIS 102), midbody cuticle showing four areolar types with the same characteristics of Chordodes anthophorus. Bars: (A and C): 20 µm; (B, and F): 20 µm; (D): 50 µm; (E): 10 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/273685/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Figure 3</figureCitation>
B)
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="60DF6551FFE9FFA624B9760F84E0FEDB" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" type="description">
<paragraph id="287A36DAFFE9FFA624B9760F85BEFEAE" blockId="4.[151,962,266,287]" box="[151,962,266,287]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
<bibRef id="F165A22CFFE9FFA624B9760F85BEFEAE" box="[151,962,266,287]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" type="journal article">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA624B9760F85BEFEAE" box="[151,962,266,287]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
<year id="5C6D7789FFE9FFA624B9760F86B6FEAE" box="[151,202,266,287]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">1950</year>
.
<title id="5AC1DDECFFE9FFA624FD760F8421FEAE" box="[211,605,266,287]" jopScore="0.36036977" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Chordodes aquaeductus. Kirjanova Trud</title>
.
<journalOrPublisher id="F2043C16FFE9FFA62649760F850BFEAE" box="[615,887,266,287]" jopScore="1.4414791" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR</journalOrPublisher>
<part id="5C619C47FFE9FFA62753760F85F7FEAE" box="[893,907,266,287]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" type="volume">9</part>
:
<pagination id="110CC82EFFE9FFA627B9760F85C2FEAE" box="[919,958,266,287]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" type="pagination">260</pagination>
.
</emphasis>
</bibRef>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="287A36DAFFE9FFA624B9765584E0FEDB" blockId="4.[151,1439,336,1201]" box="[151,668,336,362]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA624B976558754FED8" box="[151,296,336,361]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
Series
<typeStatus id="F77E8878FFE9FFA624C876558754FED8" box="[230,296,336,361]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Types</typeStatus>
</emphasis>
:
<specimenCount id="3EC3FD53FFE9FFA62519765587EDFEDB" box="[311,401,336,362]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" type="male">2 males</specimenCount>
and
<specimenCount id="3EC3FD53FFE9FFA625E57655844DFEDB" box="[459,561,336,362]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" type="female">1 female</specimenCount>
(ZIS 90)
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="60DF6551FFE9FFA624E8767D87FEFE53" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" type="materials_examined">
<paragraph id="287A36DAFFE9FFA624E8767D8403FE23" blockId="4.[151,1439,336,1201]" box="[198,639,376,402]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA624E8767D8721FE20" box="[198,349,376,401]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
<typeStatus id="F77E8878FFE9FFA624E8767D8681FE20" box="[198,253,376,401]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Type</typeStatus>
locality
</emphasis>
:
<collectingCountry id="50D2764AFFE9FFA62542767D879EFE23" box="[364,482,376,402]" name="Tajikistan" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Tajikistan</collectingCountry>
, Pendzhikent
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="287A36DAFFE9FFA624E876A5847FFE0B" blockId="4.[151,1439,336,1201]" box="[198,515,416,442]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA624E876A587D8FE08" box="[198,420,416,441]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Material examined</emphasis>
:
<specimenCount id="3EC3FD53FFE9FFA6259A76A5847FFE0B" box="[436,515,416,442]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" type="male">1 male</specimenCount>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="287A36DAFFE9FFA624E876CD87FEFE53" blockId="4.[151,1439,336,1201]" box="[198,386,456,482]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA624E876CD8681FE50" box="[198,253,456,481]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Host</emphasis>
: unknown.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="60DF6551FFE9FFA624E876F585C0FD4B" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" type="description">
<paragraph id="287A36DAFFE9FFA624E876F58497FD1B" blockId="4.[151,1439,336,1201]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA624E876F5872DFDB8" box="[198,337,496,521]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Description</emphasis>
The cuticle of the only male specimen from the
<typeStatus id="F77E8878FFE9FFA627AA76F585CAFDBB" box="[900,950,496,522]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">type</typeStatus>
series of
<taxonomicName id="EFC54D59FFE9FFA6200B76F582A6FDB8" box="[1061,1242,496,521]" class="Gordioida" family="Chordodidae" genus="Chordodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Gordioidea" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" phylum="Nematomorpha" rank="species" species="aquaeductus">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA6200B76F582A6FDB8" box="[1061,1242,496,521]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">C. aquaeductus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation id="B0FE2A5FFFE9FFA620C476F58352FDBB" box="[1258,1326,496,522]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="3.[151,244,1865,1886]" captionTargetBox="[275,1315,392,1829]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[272,1315,389,1841]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 3. Cuticle of the midbody: (A) specimen labelled as “ Chordodes moutoni ” (ZIS 97); (B) [Chordodes aquaeductus] (ZIS 90); (C and D) [Chordodes ferganensis] (ZIS 100); (C) Cuticle of the body with simple, tubercle, crowned and circumcluster areoles (numbering as in Fig. 1 B), (D) Cluster of crowned areoles with long filaments (5) along the ventral midline; (E and F) [Chordodes oscillatus] (ZIS 102), midbody cuticle showing four areolar types with the same characteristics of Chordodes anthophorus. Bars: (A and C): 20 µm; (B, and F): 20 µm; (D): 50 µm; (E): 10 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/273685/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
B) shows four areolar
<typeStatus id="F77E8878FFE9FFA62505751D8711FD83" box="[299,365,536,562]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">types</typeStatus>
: simple areoles, tubercle areoles and crowned areoles that form clusters together with circumcluster areoles. Crowned areoles occur in pair and have moderately short filaments on top. Circumcluster areoles carry a ring of short filaments at the apex (
<figureCitation id="B0FE2A5FFFE9FFA626CD756D8554FD33" box="[739,808,616,642]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="3.[151,244,1865,1886]" captionTargetBox="[275,1315,392,1829]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[272,1315,389,1841]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURE 3. Cuticle of the midbody: (A) specimen labelled as “ Chordodes moutoni ” (ZIS 97); (B) [Chordodes aquaeductus] (ZIS 90); (C and D) [Chordodes ferganensis] (ZIS 100); (C) Cuticle of the body with simple, tubercle, crowned and circumcluster areoles (numbering as in Fig. 1 B), (D) Cluster of crowned areoles with long filaments (5) along the ventral midline; (E and F) [Chordodes oscillatus] (ZIS 102), midbody cuticle showing four areolar types with the same characteristics of Chordodes anthophorus. Bars: (A and C): 20 µm; (B, and F): 20 µm; (D): 50 µm; (E): 10 µm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/273685/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
B). This cuticular pattern shows the same characteristics that were observed in
<taxonomicName id="EFC54D59FFE9FFA625E475958499FD18" box="[458,741,656,681]" class="Gordioida" family="Chordodidae" genus="Chordodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Gordioidea" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" phylum="Nematomorpha" rank="species" species="anthophorus">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA625E475958499FD18" box="[458,741,656,681]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Chordodes anthophorus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="287A36DAFFE9FFA624E875BD85C0FD4B" blockId="4.[151,1439,336,1201]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA624E875BD872DFD60" box="[198,337,696,721]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Dimensions</emphasis>
: Males vary between 270 and
<quantity id="EF3D9B3FFFE9FFA626EE75BD855EFD63" box="[704,802,696,722]" metricMagnitude="-1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.9699999999999998" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" unit="mm" value="297.0">297 mm</quantity>
in length and are maximally
<quantity id="EF3D9B3FFFE9FFA620AF75BD82A0FD63" box="[1153,1244,696,722]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.5" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" unit="mm" value="1.5">1.5 mm</quantity>
in diameter; the female is
<quantity id="EF3D9B3FFFE9FFA6252775E58716FD4B" box="[265,362,736,762]" metricMagnitude="-1" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.15" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" unit="mm" value="315.0">315 mm</quantity>
in length and
<quantity id="EF3D9B3FFFE9FFA6263C75E5842AFD4B" box="[530,598,736,762]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.0" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" unit="mm" value="2.0">2 mm</quantity>
in diameter (Kirjanova 1950).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="60DF6551FFE9FFA624E8740D868CFB00" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="287A36DAFFE9FFA624E8740D868CFB00" blockId="4.[151,1439,336,1201]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA624E8740D873EFC90" box="[198,322,776,801]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Comments</emphasis>
: Gordiida specimens (ZIS 90) from
<collectingCountry id="50D2764AFFE9FFA62720740D85F8FC93" box="[782,900,776,802]" name="Tajikistan" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Tajikistan</collectingCountry>
, Pendzhikent, were described by Kirjanova (1950) as
<taxonomicName id="EFC54D59FFE9FFA6252574358459FCF8" box="[267,549,816,841]" class="Gordioida" family="Chordodidae" genus="Chordodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Gordioidea" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" phylum="Nematomorpha" rank="species" species="aquaeductus">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA6252574358459FCF8" box="[267,549,816,841]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Chordodes aquaeductus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
with 5
<typeStatus id="F77E8878FFE9FFA62653743584C7FCFB" box="[637,699,816,842]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">types</typeStatus>
of areoles. Although Kirjanova (1950) considers
<taxonomicName id="EFC54D59FFE9FFA620D0743586C5FCC0" class="Gordioida" family="Chordodidae" genus="Chordodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Gordioidea" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" phylum="Nematomorpha" rank="species" species="aquaeductus">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA620D0743586C5FCC0" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">C. aquaeductus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as very similar to
<taxonomicName id="EFC54D59FFE9FFA625B4745D842EFCC0" box="[410,594,856,881]" class="Gordioida" family="Chordodidae" genus="Chordodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Gordioidea" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" phylum="Nematomorpha" rank="species" species="anthophorus">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA625B4745D842EFCC0" box="[410,594,856,881]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">C. anthophorus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
she notes differences has fewer areolar
<typeStatus id="F77E8878FFE9FFA6201F745D820EFCC3" box="[1073,1138,856,882]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">types</typeStatus>
, because
<taxonomicName id="EFC54D59FFE9FFA620CA745D83E0FCC0" box="[1252,1436,856,881]" class="Gordioida" family="Chordodidae" genus="Chordodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Gordioidea" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" phylum="Nematomorpha" rank="species" species="aquaeductus">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA620CA745D83E0FCC0" box="[1252,1436,856,881]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">C. aquaeductus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has the areolar groups formed by more areoles, less quantity of areolar
<typeStatus id="F77E8878FFE9FFA627C67485825AFC2B" box="[1000,1062,896,922]" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">types</typeStatus>
and a bigger body size than
<taxonomicName id="EFC54D59FFE9FFA621AF74858757FC70" class="Gordioida" family="Chordodidae" genus="Chordodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Gordioidea" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" phylum="Nematomorpha" rank="species" species="anthophorus">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA621AF74858757FC70" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">C. anthophorus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. The differences between
<taxonomicName id="EFC54D59FFE9FFA6267074AD8570FC70" box="[606,780,936,961]" class="Gordioida" family="Chordodidae" genus="Chordodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Gordioidea" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" phylum="Nematomorpha" rank="species" species="aquaeducus">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA6267074AD8570FC70" box="[606,780,936,961]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">C. aquaeducus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="EFC54D59FFE9FFA6276A74AD8586FC70" box="[836,1018,936,961]" class="Gordioida" family="Chordodidae" genus="Chordodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Gordioidea" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" phylum="Nematomorpha" rank="species" species="anthophorus">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA6276A74AD8586FC70" box="[836,1018,936,961]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">C. anthophorus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
mentioned by Kirjanova (1950) are difficult to sustain because the body size is too variable in the specimens within the same species (Schmidt­ Rhaesa 1997), the quantity of areoles forming the areolar groups is also variable within the same specimen (de Villalobos
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA625387325872CFB88" box="[278,336,1056,1081]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">et al.</emphasis>
2004).
<collectingCountry id="50D2764AFFE9FFA62584732587B7FB8B" box="[426,459,1056,1082]" name="American Samoa" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">As</collectingCountry>
we previously pointed out, it is usual that two areolar groups arranged very close to each other give the appearance of one group with many areoles. No characteristics separate this species from
<taxonomicName id="EFC54D59FFE9FFA624B9737587C9FB38" box="[151,437,1136,1161]" class="Gordioida" family="Chordodidae" genus="Chordodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Gordioidea" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" phylum="Nematomorpha" rank="species" species="anthophorus">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA624B9737587C9FB38" box="[151,437,1136,1161]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Chordodes anthophorus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Therefore, we regard
<taxonomicName id="EFC54D59FFE9FFA626E273758596FB38" box="[716,1002,1136,1161]" class="Gordioida" family="Chordodidae" genus="Chordodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Gordioidea" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" phylum="Nematomorpha" rank="species" species="aquaeductus">
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA626E273758596FB38" box="[716,1002,1136,1161]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">Chordodes aquaeductus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a synonym of
<emphasis id="1AB1EAC8FFE9FFA620E87375868CFB00" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="43">
<taxonomicName id="EFC54D59FFE9FFA620E873758691FB00" class="Gordioida" family="Chordodidae" genus="Chordodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Gordioidea" pageId="4" pageNumber="43" phylum="Nematomorpha" rank="species" species="anthophorus">Chordodes anthophorus</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
</document>