Neodiplopeltula Holovachov & Boström 2018, gen. nov.

• Main Authors: Holovachov, Oleksandr, Boström, Sven
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Nematoda; Adenophorea; Araeolaimida; Diplopeltidae; Neodiplopeltula; Norwegian Sea; Sven; Barentssee
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3843743; https://zenodo.org/record/3843743

Key to species of the genus Neodiplopeltula gen. nov. (see Table 6 for additional diagnostic characters) 1. Refractive periamphideal plates absent............... N. intermedia (Gerlach, 1954) gen. et comb. nov. – Refractive periamphideal plates present........................................................................................... 2 2. Refractive periamphideal plates connect on dorsal and ventral body sides..................................... 3 – Refractive periamphideal plates do not connect............................................................................... 4 3. Oral opening subdorsal; amphid 32–44 µm long........ N. onusta (Wieser, 1956) gen. et comb. nov. – Oral opening terminal; amphid 16–17 µm long.................................................................................................. N. obesa (Nguyen Vu Thahn, Nguyen Thahn Hien & Gagarin, 2012) gen. et comb. nov. 4. Oral opening terminal................................................... N. indica (Gerlach 1962) gen. et comb. nov. – Oral opening subdorsal..................................................................................................................... 5 5. Oral opening at level with or posterior to cephalic setae bases, 6–16 µm from anterior end............................................................................................. N. bathmanni (Jensen, 1991) gen. et comb. nov. – Oral opening anterior to cephalic setae bases, 1–3 µm from anterior end....................................... 6 6. Refractive periamphideal plates with incised margins; cephalic setae more than 8 µm long................................................................................................ N. incisa (Southern, 1914) gen. et comb. nov. – Refractive periamphideal plates oval in shape; cephalic setae less than 8 µm long............................................................................................................... N. barentsi (Steiner, 1916) gen. et comb. nov. : Published as part of Holovachov, Oleksandr & Boström, Sven, 2018, Neodiplopeltula gen. nov. from the west coast of Sweden and reappraisal of the genus Diplopeltula Gerlach, 1950 (Nematoda, Diplopeltidae), pp. 1-34 in European Journal of Taxonomy 458 on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.458, http://zenodo.org/record/3826987 : {"references": ["Wieser W. 1956. Free-living Nematodes and Other Small Invertebrates of Puget Sound Beaches. University of Washington Press.", "Jensen P. 1991. Nine new and less known nematode species from the deep-sea benthos of the Norwegian Sea. Hydrobiologia 222: 57 - 76. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00017500", "Southern R. 1914. Nemathelmaia, Kinorhyncha, and Chaetognatha (Clare Island Survey, Part 54). Proceedings of the the Royal Irish Academy 31: 1 - 80.", "Steiner G. 1916. Freilebende Nematoden aus der Barentssee. Zoologische Jahrbucher. Abteilung fur Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 39: 511 - 664."]}