Neodiplopeltula Holovachov & Boström 2018
- Dataset
- Neodiplopeltula gen. nov. from the west coast of Sweden and reappraisal of the genus Diplopeltula Gerlach, 1950 (Nematoda, Diplopeltidae)
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Holovachov, Oleksandr, Boström, Sven (2018): Neodiplopeltula gen. nov. from the west coast of Sweden and reappraisal of the genus Diplopeltula Gerlach, 1950 (Nematoda, Diplopeltidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 458: 1-34, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.458
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Nematoda
- class
- Adenophorea
- order
- Araeolaimida
- family
- Diplopeltidae
- genus
- Neodiplopeltula
Neodiplopeltula Holovachov & Boström 2018
Key to species of the genus Neodiplopeltula gen. nov. (see Table 6 for additional diagnostic characters)
1. Refractive periamphideal plates absent............... N. intermedia (Gerlach, 1954) gen. et comb. nov. – Refractive periamphideal plates present........................................................................................... 2
2. Refractive periamphideal plates connect on dorsal and ventral body sides..................................... 3 – Refractive periamphideal plates do not connect............................................................................... 4
3. Oral opening subdorsal; amphid 32–44 µm long........ N. onusta (Wieser, 1956) gen. et comb. nov. – Oral opening terminal; amphid 16–17 µm long.................................................................................................. N. obesa (Nguyen Vu Thahn, Nguyen Thahn Hien & Gagarin, 2012) gen. et comb. nov.
4. Oral opening terminal................................................... N. indica (Gerlach 1962) gen. et comb. nov. – Oral opening subdorsal..................................................................................................................... 5
5. Oral opening at level with or posterior to cephalic setae bases, 6–16 µm from anterior end............................................................................................. N. bathmanni (Jensen, 1991) gen. et comb. nov. – Oral opening anterior to cephalic setae bases, 1–3 µm from anterior end....................................... 6
6. Refractive periamphideal plates with incised margins; cephalic setae more than 8 µm long................................................................................................ N. incisa (Southern, 1914) gen. et comb. nov.
– Refractive periamphideal plates oval in shape; cephalic setae less than 8 µm long............................................................................................................... N. barentsi (Steiner, 1916) gen. et comb. nov.