Paralaxus cocos, Scharhauser & Zimmermann & Gruber-Vodicka & Ott & Leisch, 2020

Scharhauser, Florian, Zimmermann, Judith, Gruber-Vodicka, Harald R., Ott, Jörg A. & Leisch, Nikolaus, 2020, Morphology of obligate ectosymbionts reveals Paralaxus gen. nov.: A new circumtropical genus of marine stilbonematine nematodes, Zoologica Scripta 49 (3), pp. 379-394 : 383

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12399

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15994642

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3620C317-4F51-FF83-FC90-B1176816AEC8

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Felipe

scientific name

Paralaxus cocos
status

sp. nov.

Paralaxus cocos View in CoL sp. nov.

ZooBank registration (http://zoobank.org): urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act A659918E-FD88-4584– 8115-CD4C396AE400.

GenBank entries for 18S rRNA and COI sequences: see Table S1.

Species from Belize, Central America, can be identified by an amphidial fovea with one and a half turns and the bulbus occupies 32%–35% of the pharynx length. The velum of male specimens makes up 43%–47% of the tail length and the spicula are moderately arcuate (Figure 2a-g).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Nematoda

Class

Chromadorea

Order

Desmodorida

Family

Desmodoridae

Genus

Paralaxus

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