Achromadora tenax Micoletzky 1925 ...

• Main Author: P. A. A. LOOF
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 1971
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Nematoda; Chromadorea; Chromadorida; Achromadoridae; Achromadora; Achromadora tenax; Spitzbergen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8152896; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.8152896

Achromadora tenax (de Man, 1876) Micoletzky, 1925 ( Fig. 17, C - D). Dimensions of 15 females: L = 0.38 -0.42 mm; a = 23 -27; b = 5.7-6.3; c = 6. 1- 7. 3; V = 46-48. Head end more rounded, less obviously truncated than in most other species of this genus. Mouth cavity weakly sclerotized, its details indistinct. Amphids rather inconspicuous, spiral; located about 14 \i (more than two head widths) from anterior end. Cuticular annulation resolvable into dots. Terminal bulb of oesophagus strongly developed. Vulva lips somewhat protruding. Cephalic setae very short and inconspicuous, directed almost laterad. Tail bent strongly ventrad, often 180 °; its length equal to 5.5- 7.3 anal body widths. Rectum 2.3-3. 1 anal body widths long, its anterior half strongly inflated. Spinneret tube tapering, about 2 JA long. Samples 3, 7, 8, 10, 21, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 37, 38, 40, 41, 55, 62, 66 and 69. Generally A. tenax is regarded a synonym of A.dubia (Bütschli, 1873). However, the identity of the latter is wholly ... : Published as part of P. A. A. LOOF, 1971, FREELIVING AND PLANT PARASITIC NEMATODES FROM SPITZBERGEN, COLLECTED BY MR. H. VAN ROSSEN, pp. 1-86 in Mededelingen Landbouwhogeschool Wageningen 71 on page 55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8152982 ...