Diplopeltula Gerlach 1950

• Main Author: Leduc, Daniel
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Nematoda; Adenophorea; Araeolaimida; Axonolaimidae; Diplopeltula; Norwegian Sea; New Zealand; Ocampo; Shmidt
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5618636; https://zenodo.org/record/5618636

Genus Diplopeltula Gerlach, 1950 Type species. Diplopeltula breviceps Gerlach, 1950 Diagnosis. (Modified from Fonseca & Bezerra (2014).) Striated cuticle, sometimes with longitudinal bars. Loopshaped and elongated amphideal fovea, may be located on cuticularised amphideal plate. Ocelli absent. Buccal cavity cup- or barrel-shaped, sometimes minute, situated terminally or slightly dorsally. Pharynx cylindrical, with or without posterior bulb. Female reproductive system with two outstretched ovaries. Tail usually conical, sometimes conicocylindrical. Remarks. The taxonomy of the genus Diplopeltula was most recently reviewed by Holovachov et al . (2009). They considered D. botula Wieser (1959) Gerlach, 1962, D. lucanica Boucher & Helléouët, 1977 and D. striata Gerlach, 1956 to be species inquirendae due to lack of information on pharynx morphology and female reproductive system. They also transferred the species Diplopeltis bathmanni Jensen, 1991 to the genus Diplopeltula , Diplopeltula curtus Vincx & Gourbault, 1992 to the genus Pararaeolaimus, and Diplopeltula pulcher and Diplopeltula sundensis to the genus Diplopeltoides Gerlach, 1962. More recently, Diplopeltula nellyae Vincx & Gourbault, 1992 was transferred to the genus Mudwigglus by Leduc (2013). Some species described by Bussau (1993), namely D. mollis Bussau, 1993 and D. peruensis Bussau, 1993, lack information on the female reproductive system and are therefore considered species inquirendae . : Published as part of Leduc, Daniel, 2017, Four new nematode species (Araeolaimida: Comesomatidae, Diplopeltidae) from the New Zealand continental slope, pp. 244-264 in Zootaxa 4237 (2) on page 259, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4237.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/343781 : {"references": ["Gerlach, S. A. (1950) Die Diplopeltiden, eine gruppe freilebender nematoden. Kieler Meeresforschungen, 7, 138 - 156.", "Fonseca, G. & Bezerra, T. N. (2014) Order Araeolaimida De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1933. In: Shmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.), Handbook of Zoology, Gastrotricha, Cyclioneura and Gnathifera. Fol. 2. Nematoda. De Gruyter, Hamburg, pp. 467 - 486.", "Holovachov, O., De Ley, I. T., Mundo-Ocampo, M., Gingold, R. & De Ley, P. (2009) Nematodes from the Gulf of California. Part 3. Three new species of the genus Diplopeltoides Gerlach, 1962 (Nematoda: Diplopeltoididae) with overviews of the genera Diplopeltis Gerlach, 1962 and Diplopeltula Gerlach, 1950. Russian Journal of Nematology, 17, 43 - 57", "Jensen, P. (1991) Bodonematidae fam. n. (Nematoda, Monhysterida) accommodating Bodonema vossi gen. et sp. n. from the deep-sea benthos of the Norwegian Sea. Sarsia, 76, 11 - 15.", "Leduc, D. (2013) Mudwigglus gen. n. (Nematoda: Diplopeltidae) from the continental slope of New Zealand, with description of three new species and notes on their distributions. Zootaxa, 3682 (2), 351 - 370.", "Bussau, C. (1993) Taxonomische und okologische Untersuchungen an Nematoden des Peru-Beckens. PhD thesis, Christian- Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, Kiel, 621 pp."]}