Plectus assimilis Butschli 1873

Plectus assimilis Bütschli, 1873 (Fig. 14). Dimensions of five females: L = 0.61 -0.73 mm; a = 14-15; b = 4.0-4.7; c = 10-12; V = 8 - 1246 - 51 8 - 1 3. This rather aberrant species can be recognized easily by its very plump body, tapering hardly towards the head end, strongly so towards tail end. A...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: P. A. A. LOOF
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 1971
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Nematoda
Chromadorea
Plectida
Plectidae
Plectus
Plectus assimilis
Spitzbergen
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/8152864
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8152864
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Summary:Plectus assimilis Bütschli, 1873 (Fig. 14). Dimensions of five females: L = 0.61 -0.73 mm; a = 14-15; b = 4.0-4.7; c = 10-12; V = 8 - 1246 - 51 8 - 1 3. This rather aberrant species can be recognized easily by its very plump body, tapering hardly towards the head end, strongly so towards tail end. Amphids 2.5 [i. wide or 15 % of corresponding body width; located only 0.4 head widths from anterior end. Depth of stoma 22-25 jx. Corpus and isthmus of oesophagus very broad. Cephalic setae 4;x long, directed anteriad. Vulva transverse, vagina only about one-quarter of body width deep. Tail length 3.6 -4.0 anal body widths; tail almost straight. Samples 3, 4, 64 and 67. Juveniles in 27, 39 and 65. 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 47, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.8152982

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