Dolichorhabditis tereticorpus Kito & Ohyama, 2008, sp. n. ...

Dolichorhabditis tereticorpus sp. n. (Fig.2, 3) Type specimens. Eight females. Holotype ZIHU 3317 and paratypes ZIHU 3318-3324, deposited in collections of the Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. Collected by K. Kito on February 8, 1996....

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Main Authors: Kito, Kenji, Ohyama, Yoshikuni
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Published: Zenodo 2008
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5619344
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5619344
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Summary:Dolichorhabditis tereticorpus sp. n. (Fig.2, 3) Type specimens. Eight females. Holotype ZIHU 3317 and paratypes ZIHU 3318-3324, deposited in collections of the Division of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. Collected by K. Kito on February 8, 1996. Type locality and habitat. Rocky coast facing Shannon Bay near Casey Station (66o17’S, 110 o32’E), Bailey Peninsula, Budd Coast of Wilkes Land, East Antarctica [Sector 2 of Andrássy (1998)]. Sediment contaminated with the treated effluent disposed from the station. Measurements. Table 1. Characters: a,b,c, de Man's ratios; V, position of vulva as a percentage of the body length from anterior end. Description. FEMALE (Holotype ZIHU 3317: range and/or avg±sd for 8 specimens in parentheses). Body (Fig. 2 -A) almost cylindrical, gradually tapering to anterior end, abruptly tapering from level of anus to tail end. Maximum body diameter near or at level of vulva. Cuticle 0.6-0.9 μm thick, transversely striated, annules ... : Published as part of Kito, Kenji & Ohyama, Yoshikuni, 2008, Rhabditid nematodes found from a rocky coast contaminated with treated wastewater of Casey Station in East Antarctica, with a description of a new species of Dolichorhabditis Andrássy, 1983 (Nematoda: Rhabditidae), pp. 43-52 in Zootaxa 1850 on pages 45-48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183386 ...