Amphimonhystrella bullacauda Tchesunov et Miljutina, sp. n. ...

• Main Authors: Tchesunov, Alexei V., Miljutina, Maria A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2005
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Nematoda; Adenophorea; Monhysterida; Monhysteridae; Amphimonhystrella; Amphimonhystrella bullacauda; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5658413; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5658413

Amphimonhystrella bullacauda Tchesunov et Miljutina sp. n. Table 1, Figs 1, 2 Material. One holotype male, four paratype males and five paratype females. The slides are deposited in the nematode collection of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Type locality. Arctic Ocean, area between Greenland and Svalbard, 79°8.2'N & 02°53.6'E, depth 5569 m (Molloy Deep), silt, August 16, 2000. Etymology. The name bullacauda means “knob­terminated tail”. Description. Body slender, elongate spindle­shaped. Cuticle distinctly annulated with approximately ten annules per 10 µm. Cephalic end slightly narrowed, in shape of a truncated cone. Cephalic cuticle smooth from the apex to the stoma ending. There are very minute, obscure inner labial papillae in the labial region. Outer labial and cephalic setae united in almost one circle. Outer labial setae obscurely two­jointed and longer than smooth cephalic setae at about one third. Amphid relatively large, round or slightly ... : Published as part of Tchesunov, Alexei V. & Miljutina, Maria A., 2005, Three new minute nematode species of the superfamily Monhysteroidea from Arctic Abyss, pp. 19-32 in Zootaxa 1051 on pages 22-25, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.169981 ...