Hopperia

• Main Authors: Pastor, Catalina T., Ward, De
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2004
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Nematoda; Adenophorea; Desmodorida; Comesomatidae; Hopperia; Antarctic; Patagonia; Indian; Argentina; Chubut; Catalina; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6270755; https://zenodo.org/record/6270755

Key to all known species of Hopperia 1 Stoma armed with three odontia situated at juncture of cyathiform and tubular portion of the stoma; interchordal punctuations in circumferential rows................................. 2 1 ' Stoma armed with six odontia situated at juncture of cyathiform and tubular regions of the stoma; interchordal punctuations irregularly distributed (12–14 precloacal suppl.; spic. 101, 2 abd; ov. outstreched) ............. Hopperia hexadentata Hope & Zhang 1995 2 Length of posterior cylindrical region of the stoma larger than 1,5 amphid diameters 3 2 ’ Length of posterior cylindrical region of the stoma smaller than 1,5 amphid diameters (12 precloacal supplements; spicules 44 µm long, 0.5 abd; ov. outstretched)................ ........................................................................................................ H. patagonica n. sp. 3 Length of posterior cylindrical region of the stoma between 1,5 and 2,5 amphid diameters....................................................................................................................................... 4 3 ’ Length of posterior cylindrical region of the stoma larger than 2,5 amphid diameters 5 4 Spicules shorter than or equal to 2.0 abd...................................................................... 6 4 ’ Spicules longer than 2 abd (precloacal suppl. present; Spic. 87.0 µm, 2.5 abd, ov. outstreched).......................................................................... H. muscatensis Warwick 1973 5 More than 10 precloacal supplements (20–21 precloacal suppl.; Spic. 69.0 µm long, 1.5 abd, ov. outstretched ............................................. H. indiana Muthumbi et al. 1997 5 ’ Less than 10 precloacal supplements (8 precloacal suppl.; Spic. 37.0–44.0 µm, 1.5 abd, ov. outstretched).............................................................. H. australis Jensen 1992 6 Tail tip not swollen........................................................................................................ 7 6 ’ Tail tip swollen.............................................................................................................. 8 7 Reflexed ovaries (8 precloacal suppl., spic. 40.0 µm, 2 abd)....................................................................................................................... H. dorylaimopsoides (Allgen, 1959) 7 ’ Outstretched ovaries (6–7 precloacal suppl., spic 54,8 µm, 1,5 abd).............................. ................................................................................... H. beaglense Chen & Vincx 1998 8 Number of precloacal supplements greater than 10 (13–16 precloacal suppl., spic. 52.0–54.0 µm long, 1.3 abd, ov. reflexed) ....................... H. massiliensis Vitiello 1969 8 ’ Number of precloacal supplements smaller than 10 (6 precloacal suppl., ov. outstretched) spic. 54.0 µm, 1.4 abd........................... H. americana Pastor de Ward 1984 spic. 48.7 µm, 1.8 abd ....................................................... H. arntzi Chen & Vincx 1998 : Published as part of Pastor, Catalina T. & Ward, De, 2004, New species of Hopperia (Nematoda, Comesomatidae) and Metachromadora (Nematoda, Desmodoridae) from Patagonia, Chubut, Argentina, pp. 1-15 in Zootaxa 542 on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157676 : {"references": ["Hope, D. & Zhang, Z. (1995) New nematodes from the Yellow Sea, Hopperia hexadentata n. sp. and Cervonema deltensis n. sp. (Chromadorida: Comesomatidae), with observations on morphology and systematics. Invertebrate Biology, 114 (2), 119 - 138.", "Warwick, R. M., (1973) Free-living marine nematodes from the Indian Ocean. Bulletin British Museum natural History (Zoology), 25, 85 - 117.", "Muthumbi, A. W., Soetaert, K. & Vincx, M. (1997) Deep sea nematodes from the Indian Ocean: new and known species of the family Comesomatidae. Hydrobiologia, 346, 25 - 57.", "Jensen, P. (1992) Description of the marine nematode Hopperia australis sp. n. (Comesomatidae) from mangroves in Darwin, Australia, with pictorial key to Hopperia species. Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 33 (1), 495 - 500.", "Allgen, C. A. (1959) Freeliving marine nematodes. Further Zoological Results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901 - 1903, Stockholm, 5, 1 - 293.", "Chen, G. & Vincx, M. (1998) Nematodes from the Strait of Magellan and the Beagle Channel (Chile): description of four new species of the Comesomatidae. Hydrobiologia, 379, 97 - 110.", "Vitiello, P. (1969) Hopperia nouveau genre de Nematode libre marin (Comesomatidae). Tethys, 1 (2), 485 - 492."]}