Enchodelus groenlandicus Thorne 1939

• Main Author: Andrássy, I.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Nematoda; Enoplea; Dorylaimida; Nordiidae; Enchodelus; Enchodelus groenlandicus; Greenland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10728535; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/316FE130FFCBFF4EFF7BF88BFB187B4D

ENCHODELUS GROENLANDICUS (Ditlevsen, 1927) Thorne, 1939 (Fig. 7) Females (n = 2). L = 1.54-1.68 mm; a = 22-23; b = 4.0-4.6; c = 40-46; c’ = 0.7-0.8; V = 44-45 %. Body 77-80 µm wide at middle. Cuticle 3-4 µm thick on mid-body and 8-9 µm on tail. Lip region rounded, offset by a slight depression, 19-20 µm wide. Body at posterior end of oesophagus 3.5-3.6 times as wide as head. Odontostyle long and thin, 50-51 µm, 2.5-2.6 times as long as labial width; odontophore 52-54 µm long. Oesophagus widened at 62-63%. Dorsal nucleus located at 64-68% of oesophagus length or 14-16% of entire length of body. AS1 = 22-26%, AS2 = 28-32%, PS1 = 53-56%, PS2 = 56-57%; AS nuclei small, rather inconspicuous, PS nuclei prominent. Glandularium 115-133 µm long. Vulva a transverse slit with large and heavily sclerotized inner lips. Vagina strong, 40-44 µm long, extending well over half a body diameter. Each genital branch about four body widths long. Tail 28-30 µm long, broadly rounded, hemispheroid. The present specimens fit well the morphological characters of Enchodelus groenlandicus as recently described by Guerrero and Peña-Santiago (2008). This is the second record of this rare species after its original description; E. groenlandicus has previously been reported from terrestrial habitats in Greenland and Spain. The Albanian specimens were observed in terrestrial habitats at localities No. 8b and 11b. Published as part of Andrássy, I., 2009, Free-living Nematodes from Albania, including the description of three new species, pp. 73-88 in Nematologia Mediterranea 37 on pages 84-85, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10728610