Monhystera stagnalis Bastian 1865 ...

• Main Author: P. A. A. LOOF
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 1971
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Nematoda; Chromadorea; Monhysterida; Monhysteridae; Monhystera; Monhystera stagnalis; Spitzbergen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8152901; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.8152901

Monhystera stagnalis Bastian, 1865. Two females. Dimensions: L = 1.14-1.24 mm; a = 28; b = 5.1- 5. 5; c = 5.3- 5.7; V = 32 - 3360-62. Body stout, tapering hardly anteriorly, the head end very broadly truncate. Cuticle smooth. Length of subcephalic setae 6- 7 \i or not quite one-third of corresponding body width. Body diameter at base of oesophagus 1.5 X width of lip region. Head end without distinct lips. Body with four rows of submedian setae measuring about one-sixth of body width. Diameter of amphids 6 \x; they are slightly wider than long and located 24 \L or 0.9 head width behind the anterior end. Oesophagus very thick, the posterior part slightly expanded, though not bulbiform; the posterior part filled with large branched glands. Width of amphids equal to one-quarter of corresponding body width. Distance from vulva to anus equal to 100 - 125 % of tail length. Tail 8 -9 anal body widths long, tapering in anterior half, cylindroid in posterior. Rectum measuring about 90 % of anal body width, Spinneret ... : 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 56, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8152982 ...