Spirinia lara sp. n. and Spirinia sophia sp. n. (Nematoda, Desmodoridae) from the Brazilian continental margin (Campos Basin, Rio de Janeiro)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2081 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIA CRISTINA DA SILVA ◽  
FRANCISCO JOSÉ VICTOR DE CASTRO ◽  
MARIANA DA FONSECA CAVALCANTI ◽  
VERÔNICA DA FONSÊCA-GENEVOIS

In deep-sea sediments from Campos Basin two new species of Spirinia were found. Spirinia lara sp. n. is mainly characterized by the presence of paired somatic papillae linked to gland cells and distributed all over the body while Spirinia sophia sp. n. possesses an irregular distribution of these glandular somatic papillae.

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2096 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIANA DA FONSECA CAVALCANTI ◽  
MARIA CRISTINA DA SILVA ◽  
VERÔNICA DA FONSÊCA-GENEVOIS

A new genus and species of Desmodoridae was found in deep-sea sediments of the Campos Basin. Although the cuticle annulation of the new species is similar to members of Desmodorinae, many morphological features are strong enough to classify it within the Spiriniinae. Spirodesma magdae nov. gen. nov. sp. is characterized mainly by the presence of a unique form of unispired amphids, with circular amphideal fovea, and a buccal cavity with three equal teeth, one dorsal and two ventrosublateral.


Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4344 (2) ◽  
pp. 308
Author(s):  
BENZE SHI ◽  
TINGTING YU ◽  
KUIDONG XU

Two new species of marine nematodes, Paramphimonhystrella longispicula sp. n. in the deep-sea sediments from the Philippine Sea in the tropical Western Pacific Ocean with the water depth of 3920–5176 m and P. eurystoma sp. n. in the shelf seafloor from the East China Sea with the water depth of 55–64 m, are described. Both species possess long and slender spicules, which are present only in the congener P. barbula, a species discovered from the continental slope of New Zealand. Paramphimonhystrella longispicula sp. n. can be easily distinguished from P. barbula by the relatively broader buccal cavity, the unequally long cervical setae and a higher number of terminal setae. Paramphimonhystrella eurystoma sp. n. is unique in having a peculiar gubernaculum with two proximal capitula and a peculiar hammer-shaped cuticularized piece posterior to vulva, by which it can be distinguished from P. longispicula sp. n. and P. barbula as well as other congeners. Paramphimonhystrella longispicula sp. n. differs from P. eurystoma sp. n. also by the number of terminal setae (4 vs. 2). A dichotomous key to nine valid species of Paramphimonhystrella is provided. 


2019 ◽  
Vol 187 (4) ◽  
pp. 1155-1172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia A Lunina ◽  
Dmitry N Kulagin ◽  
Alexander L Vereshchaka

Abstract The phylogenetic study of the deep-sea genus Bentheogennema is based on four molecular markers and 79 morphological characters. All four previously recognized species and two new species of Bentheogennema, representatives of all other genera and species groups of Benthesicymidae, and three outgroups were included in the analyses. We have examined and coded six major groups of morphological characters related to the carapace (three characters), the pleon and the telson (14), the mouthparts (nine), the armature of the pereopods (five), the thelycum (27) and the petasma (21). Results of morphological and molecular analyses were similar. Two species were transferred from Bentheogennema to other genera (for one of them a new genus was erected) and two new species of Bentheogennema were described. Three pelagic genera (Gennadas, Bentheogennema and a new genus) created a robust clade. The divergence of this clade is linked to ‘smoothening’ of the body (reduction of the branchiostegal spine on the carapace, reduction and loss of the dorsolateral spines and the end-piece on the telson) and elaboration of the copulatory structures. We provide amended diagnoses of these three pelagic genera and key to species of Bentheogennema.


2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (9) ◽  
pp. 879-884 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato S. Carreira ◽  
Michelle P. Araújo ◽  
Talitha L.F. Costa ◽  
Nafisa R. Ansari ◽  
Luís C.M. Pires

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2096 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALESSANDRA PRATES BOTELHO ◽  
MARIA CRISTINA DA SILVA ◽  
LUCIANA DAVINA TOSTA SOBRAL ◽  
VERÔNICA GOMES FONSÊCA-GENEVOIS

Sabatieria is the most abundant nematode genus on the Campos Basin continental slope. Two new species are described here. Sabatieria exilis sp. n. has a small rounded head and a narrow pharynx with a cuticularized anterior end. Sabatieria fidelis sp. n. has a short outstretched testis, spicules directed ventrally and shaped like the tip of a dropper, the gubernaculum with a v-shaped cuticularized area in the distal part, short cephalic and somatic setae, and a longer tail.


Author(s):  
Anna Zhadan

Two new species of Cossura Webster & Benedict, 1887 were found in material collected during sampling from the terminal lobes of the Congo deep-sea fan. They were described using light and scanning electron microscopy. Cossura platypus sp. nov. has 15–17 thoracic chaetigers, a prostomium longer than it is wide, with a widely rounded anterior margin, an abruptly expanded posterior prostomial ring the same length as the peristomium, without a mid-ventral notch, a branchial filament attached to the midlength of chaetiger 3, and a pygidium with three anal cirri. Cossura platypus sp. nov. is similar to C. brunnea Fauchald, 1972 but differs in the shape of the prostomium, which is widely rounded anteriorly in C. platypus sp. nov. and is broadly triangular in C. brunnea; furthermore, C. platypus sp. nov.is uniformly pale, whereas C. brunnea has dark pigmentation. Cossura candida Hartman, 1955 differs from C. platypus sp. nov. in the conical shape of the prostomium and 24–35 thoracic chaetigers. Cossura flabelligera sp. nov. has 16–19 thoracic chaetigers, a conical prostomium, and a branchial filament arising from the posterior part of chaetiger 2; the entire body, including the chaetae, is covered by a thick mucous sheath similar to the tunic of flabelligerids. Cossura flabelligera sp. nov. resembles C. longocirrata Webster & Benedict, 1887 in the position of the branchial filament, the shape of the prostomium, and the number of thoracic chaetigers; it differs in having a thick mucous sheath. This character seems to be unique for the Cossuridae.


Crustaceana ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard L. Sanders ◽  
Robert R. Hessler
Keyword(s):  
Deep Sea ◽  

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