Dorylaimopsis Ditlevsen 1918
- Dataset
- Three new free-living marine nematode species of Dorylaimopsis (Nematoda Araeolaimida: Comesomatidae) from the South China Sea and the Chukchi Sea
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Nematoda
- class
- Adenophorea
- order
- Desmodorida
- family
- Comesomatidae
- genus
- Dorylaimopsis
diagnosis
Diagnosis (modified from Jensen (1979) & Leduc (2012 )). Dorylaimopsinae. Cuticle with transverse rows of punctations, lateral differentiation as a ridge with longitudinal rows of coarse dots. Posterior portion of buccal cavity cylindrical, with three thorn-like teeth at border to anterior portion. Outer labial sensilla and cephalic setae in separate circles. Spicules slender, usually long, arcuate or jointed. Gubernacular apophyses directed caudally or dorsocaudally.
materials_examined
Type species: Dorylaimopsis punctata Ditlevsen, 1918