Genus Stygodesmodora Blome, 1982

Type species

Stygodesmodora epixantha Blome, 1982 .

Emended diagnosis (modified from Blome 1982)

Cuticle with coarse annulations; numerous long somatic setae may be present; annulated head region (sometimes intraspecific variation, with the head of some specimens only partially annulated in dorsal and ventral regions). Amphid unispiral or spiral located on amphideal plate; small to medium sized buccal cavity with dorsal tooth and (usually) smaller subventral teeth. Pharynx with rounded or pyriform posterior bulb, without cuticularised lumen. Pre-cloacal supplements present or absent; spicules short, arcuate, and with well-developed capitulum; gubernaculum present.

Valid species

S. bacillicauda (Gerlach, 1963)

S. epixantha Blome, 1982

S pecies inquirenda

S. rotundicephala (Cobb, 1920)