Four new free-living marine nematode species (Sabatieria) from the Chukchi Sea

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4646 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-54
Author(s):  
PEIPEI YANG ◽  
YUQING GUO ◽  
YUZHEN CHEN ◽  
RONGCHENG LIN

Four new free-living marine nematode species of the genus Sabatieria are described from the Chukchi Sea. Sabatieria chukchensis sp. n. is characterized by a long body (2052–2326 μm), two pairs of short cervical setae present, amphideal fovea spiral with 2.75–3.25 turns, and seven papilliform pre-cloacal supplements. Sabatieria parvamphis sp. n. is characterized by small amphideal fovea (equal to 55–72% corresponding body diameter), amphideal fovea spiral with 3.25 turns, short cephalic setae (6–7 μm, equal to 31–38% of head diameter), curved gubernacular apophyses, thirteen to fifteen prominent tubular pre-cloacal supplements with distance between adjacent supplements increasing towards the anterior. Sabatieria major sp. n. is characterized by a long body (3879–4255 μm), amphideal fovea spiral with 2.5–3.25 turns, and seventeen to thirty-two small tubular pre-cloacal supplements. Sabatieria multisupplementia sp. n. is characterized by a long body (3967–4294 μm), amphideal fovea spiral with 2.75–3 turns, and forty-one to forty-seven tubular pre-cloacal supplements. 

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4695 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
JING SUN ◽  
HONGXIU ZHAI ◽  
YONG HUANG

A new free-living marine nematode species from marine sediments in the East China Sea, is described here as Perspiria boucheri sp. nov. The new species is characterized by amphideal fovea surrounded partially by body annulations; four cephalic setae stout; conical buccal cavity with a minute dorsal tooth and two ventrosublateral teeth; pharynx with a pyriform terminal bulb; tail elongated, conical with 3/4 posterior cylindrical portion which having distinct coarse annulations; spicules strongly curved with narrow ventral velum, handle-shaped proximally; gubernaculum canoe-shaped, without apophysis. The new species differs from the most similar species Perspiria striaticaudata (Timm, 1962) by strongly curved spicules with handle-shaped proximal end, gubernaculum without dorsal apophysis and relatively shorter tail. Updated key to all species of Perspiria is provided. 


Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4407 (4) ◽  
pp. 573
Author(s):  
MIAN HUANG ◽  
YONG HUANG

Two new free-living marine nematode species of the genus Paracomesoma and genus Metacomesoma belonging to family Comesomatidae are described from the sublittoral sediment of the East China Sea. Paracomesoma zhangi sp. nov. is characterized by cuticle with fine transverse rows of dots, without lateral differentiation; buccal cavity with three small teeth; cephalic setae 13.5 μm long; multispiral amphideal fovea with three turns; spicules slender and elongated with thick cuticularized proximal end; gubernaculum plate-like without apophysis; 26 minute precloacal supplements. Metacomesoma macramphida sp. nov. is characterized by very small buccal cavity without teeth; inner and outer labial sensilla papilliform; four cephalic setae 1.5 μm long; multispiral amphideal fovea large, with 4.5 turns; spicules slender and elongated, with cephalated proximal end and finger-shaped distal end; gubernaculum plate-like, without apophysis; precloacal supplements absent. An updated dichotomous key for the identification of the males of the species of Paracomesoma is provided. 


2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
Daisuke Shimada ◽  
Megumu Tsujimoto ◽  
Kentaro Watanabe

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2611 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
D. LEDUC ◽  
D. A. WHARTON

Pseudochromadora reathae n. sp. is described from intertidal sand in Otago Harbour (southern New Zealand), and Pseudodesmodora lacrima n. sp. is described from subtidal sediment in the Firth of Thames (northern New Zealand). Pseudochromadora reathae n. sp. differs from other species of the genus through the combination of the following characters: sexual dimorphism in the shape of the apertura amphidialis, no interdigitation of body annuli at level of lateral alae, presence of eight longitudinal rows of somatic setae, and conspicuous pre-cloacal supplements consisting of star-shaped projections flanked by two cuticularised pieces. Pseudodesmodora lacrima n. sp. is characterised by the presence of large unispiral amphids on amphidial plates, conspicuous ducts in the head region, low a values, and short cephalic setae.


Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4608 (3) ◽  
pp. 433 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUJING FU ◽  
DANIEL LEDUC ◽  
YIYONG RAO ◽  
LIZHE CAI

Three new species of the free-living marine nematode genus Dorylaimopsis are described from the South China Sea and the Chukchi Sea. Dorylaimopsis longispicula sp. n. is characterized by cuticle with lateral differentiation consisting of four longitudinal rows of larger dots in pharyngeal and tail regions, two rows of larger dots elsewhere, long curved spicules, and 12–16 tubular precloacal supplements. Dorylaimopsis boucheri sp. n. is characterized by lateral differentiation consisting of 3–4 longitudinal rows of larger dots in males and 4–6 rows in females, beginning about 30 μm posterior to amphids and terminating at the conical portion of the tail, 13–16 tubular precloacal supplements, and distal part of tail cylindrical without terminal setae. Dorylaimopsis jinyuei sp. n. is characterized by cuticle with lateral differentiation in the form of longitudinal rows of larger dots in two separate regions, not along entire body. One region is from posterior edge of amphid to anterior of intestine or anterior border of pharyngeal bulb in some females (4–7 longitudinal rows), the other is the tail region (5–7 longitudinal rows). In this paper, Dorylaimopsis metatypica Chitwood, 1936 is transferred to Hopperia because it is characterized by lateral differentiation consisting of larger, irregularly-distributed coarse dots (as in Hopperia), and Hopperia communis Gagarin & Nguyen, 2006 is transferred to Dorylaimopsis based on the presence of longitudinal rows of coarse dots and a cylindrical buccal cavity in most specimens of this species. A dichotomous key to valid species of Dorylaimopsis Ditlevsen, 1918 is provided. 


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