Paralaxus columbae, 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 : 383-384

publication ID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15994660

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3620C317-4F51-FF82-FC90-B2186CAEADC5

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Felipe

scientific name

Paralaxus columbae
status

sp. nov.

Paralaxus columbae View in CoL sp. nov.

ZooBank registration (http://zoobank.org): urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:4BABABB3-1DD4-46F1-A69C-BC06C1271D01 .

Species from Florida Keys, USA, can be identified by an amphidial fovea with 1–1.2 turns and the bulbus occupies 29%–33% of the pharynx length. In male specimens, the velum makes up 35%–37% of tail length and the spicula are weakly arcuate (Figure 2k-o).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Nematoda

Class

Chromadorea

Order

Desmodorida

Family

Desmodoridae

Genus

Paralaxus

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