Metasphaerolaimus Gourbault & Boucher 1981

• Main Author: Leduc, Daniel
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Nematoda; Adenophorea; Monhysterida; Sphaerolaimidae; Metasphaerolaimus; Norwegian Sea; Pacific; Charcot
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3793582; https://zenodo.org/record/3793582

Genus Metasphaerolaimus Gourbault & Boucher, 1981 Ceratosphaerolaimus Fadeeva, 1983: 1329, fig. 5. (see Jensen 1992: 8) Diagnosis (modified from Fonseca & Bezerra 2014) Cuticle finely striated. Six inner labial papillae; six outer labial setae at same level as four longer cephalic setae; eight groups of sub-cephalic setae. Amphideal fovea circular, situated posteriorly to buccal cavity. Buccal cavity strongly cuticularised with six H- or X-shaped mandibles, hooked anteriorly and articulating on cuticularised rim posteriorly. Pharynx cylindrical with strongly cuticularised lumen. Type species M. cancellatus Gourbault & Boucher, 1981. : Published as part of Leduc, Daniel, 2015, New species of Thelonema, Metasphaerolaimus, and Monhystrella (Nematoda, Monhysterida) from Kermadec Trench, Southwest Pacific, pp. 1-19 in European Journal of Taxonomy 158 on page 9, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.158, http://zenodo.org/record/3788050 : {"references": ["Gourbault N. & Boucher G. 1981. Nematodes abyssaux (Campagne Walda du N / O \" Jean Charcot \") III. Une sous-famille et six especes nouvelles de Sphaerolaimidae. Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle de Paris 4: 1035 - 1052.", "Fadeeva N. P. 1983. A contribution to the family Sphaerolaimidae Filipjev, 1918 (Nematoda, Monhysterida) from the Sea of Japan. Zoologichesky Zhurnal 9: 1321 - 1333.", "Jensen P. 1992. Predatory nematodes from the deep sea: description of species from the Norwegian Sea, diversity of feeding types and geographical distribution. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 33: 1 - 23.", "Fonseca G. & Bezerra T. N. 2014. Order Monhysterida. In: Schmidt-Rhaesa A. (ed.) Handbook of Zoology Gastrotricha, Cyclioneura and Gnathifera Volume 2, Nematoda: 435 - 465. De Gruyter, Hamburg."]}