Condyloderes Higgins 1969
- Dataset
- Revision of Condyloderes (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida) including description of Condyloderes shirleyi sp. nov.
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Neuhaus, Birger, Zotto, Matteo Dal, Yamasaki, Hiroshi, Higgins, Robert P. (2019): Revision of Condyloderes (Kinorhyncha, Cyclorhagida) including description of Condyloderes shirleyi sp. nov. Zootaxa 4561 (1): 1-91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4561.1.1
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cephalorhyncha
- class
- Kinorhyncha
- order
- Cyclorhagida
- family
- Centroderidae
- genus
- Condyloderes
diagnosis
Emended diagnosis. Mouth cone with 9 individual outer oral styles with broader base and thin and flexible anterior part; 14 trichoscalids each originating from trichoscalid plate and accompanied anteriorly by two pointed filamentous appendages; 16 placids with broader midventral placid, neighboured by two narrower placids and alternatingly a broader and a narrower placid; all placids with knobby projections (= condyles) in one or two rows in narrower placids and two or three rows in broader placids; midventral placid with three apical condyles, two in intermediate row, and 3 – 6 in basal row; ventromedial to midventral free flap and primary pectinate fringe of segment 1 at least partly reduced; acicular spine middorsally on segments 1 – 9, midterminally on segment 11 (= midterminal spine), lateroventrally on segments 1 – 9, laterodorsally on segment 10 (male only in species with irregularly distributed or almost no cuticular hairs), and lateral accessorily on segment 11 (= lateral terminal accessory spine); cuspidate spines present; type- 3 sensory spot ventrolaterally next to lateral terminal accessory spine and subdorsally on segment 11; type- 6 sensory spot elevated above trunk surface giving the impression to be half-drowned in the trunk cuticle; ventromedial appendage at least on two segments of segments 5 – 8 in female; area of micropapillae ventromedially on segment 9 in female of species with irregularly distributed or almost no cuticular hairs.