Microlaimus marinus Schumann Stekhoven & De Coninck 1933

Sivaleela, Gunasekaran, Surendar, Chandra & Kumar, Rubavath Rajendar, 2021, Free-living marine nematodes in Andhra Pradesh Coast, India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 121 (2), pp. 283-301 : 294

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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v121/i2/2021/151251

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scientific name

Microlaimus marinus Schumann Stekhoven & De Coninck 1933
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25. Microlaimus marinus Schumann Stekhoven & De Coninck 1933 View in CoL *

(Figure 16A-C)

1933 Calomicrolaimus marinus Schulze. Zool. Jahrb. Jena (Syst) 62: 331-430 Figure 51.

1933. Microlaimus marinus Schumann Stekhoven & De Coninck Bull. Mus. royal d’ Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg., 9 (4): 1-15, 5 plates.

Material examined: 2 ♂, (Reg. No. N. 265), Coringa,

3.iv.2016, Coll. G. Sivaleela.

Diagnostic characters: This species is characterized by the presence of development of buccal cavity, length of cephalic setae structure, position, and size of the amphids and the form of the copulatory structure.

Description: Body length is 1.3mm. Maximum diameter is of body 29 µm. Cuticle with transverse rows of dots. Six small and four longer 6 µm cephalic setae are present. Amphids are 7 µm wide. Buccal cavity is with one dorsal and two ventral teeth. Tail is 3 a.b.d in length. Spicules are 32 µm arcuate. Gubernaculum 18 µm in length.

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