Epsilonematinae Steiner 1927

• Main Authors: Fedyaeva, Maria A., Neretina, Tatjana V., Konovalova, Olga P., Tchesunov, Alexei V.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Nematoda; Adenophorea; Desmodorida; Epsilonematidae; White Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5628352; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F17E4CFF9FFFDEFF30F8E3FDEF5F21

Subfamily Epsilonematinae Steiner, 1927 Diagnosis (modified after Gourbault & Decraemer, 1996): Epsilonematidae. Ambulatory setae present (except in Perepsilonema ), slender, more or less bent and arranged in four to seven longitudinal rows. Head a slightly asymmetrical cone, truncated apically. Pharynx with muscular terminal bulb (except in Triepsilonema ). Female reproductive system didelphic with ovaries antidromously reflected (anterior branch only outstretched in Leptepsilonema (partim) and both branches outstretched in Triepsilonema and in some Leptepsilonema species). Type genus: Epsilonema Steiner, 1927. Published as part of Fedyaeva, Maria A., Neretina, Tatjana V., Konovalova, Olga P. & Tchesunov, Alexei V., 2016, Two known and one new species of Draconematidae and Epsilonematidae (Nematoda, Desmodorida) from the White Sea, North Russia, pp. 383-411 in Zootaxa 4121 (4) on page 399, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4121.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/265069