Enchodelus macrodoroides Thorne 1939

• Main Author: P. A. A. LOOF
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1971
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Nematoda; Enoplea; Dorylaimida; Nordiidae; Enchodelus; Enchodelus macrodoroides; Thorne; Spitzbergen
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/8153071; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8153071

Enchodelus cf. macrodoroides (Steiner, 1914) Thorne, 1939. Dimensions: Females (n = 3):L = 1.42-1.47 mm; a = 24 -28; b = 5.2 - 5.6; c = 24- 29; V = 2o- 2 i49_ 53i7 -22; odontostyle = 23 -24 pi; basal portion = 30-31 (x. Odontostyle length equal to 1.6-1.8 x width of lip region. The latter is offset by a shallow constriction. Tail length equal to 1.8- 2.0 anal body widths. Rectum as long as anal body width, prerectum about four times as long. Gonads with sperm. A male, still within the juvenile cuticle, has seven supplements. Samples 17, 18, 26, 27, 34, 40 and 42. E. macrodoroides is species inquirenda (Jairajpuri & Loof, 1968). The present specimens resemble the tropical species E. constrictus Jairajpuri & Loof, 1968, but apart from the improbability that this species should occur in the arctics, the higher supplement number makes me keep them apart from that species. 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 69, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.8152982