Desmodorella Cobb, 1933

Fadeeva, Natalia, Mordukhovich, Vladimir & Zograf, Julia, 2016, Free-living marine nematodes of Desmodorella and Zalonema (Nematoda: Desmodoridae) with description of two new species from the deep sea of the North Western Pacific, Zootaxa 4175 (6), pp. 501-520 : 503

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.6.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6D74F8B7-F745-4A07-A21B-9089DDDD571A
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5677394
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/020AF37C-FFC7-FFF9-FF7A-04B282DD15CA
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Desmodorella Cobb, 1933
status

Treatment

Genus Desmodorella Cobb, 1933 View in CoL

Type species: D. cephalata Cobb, 1933

The genus Desmodorella Cobb, 1933 differs from the other genera of family Desmodoridae by having body cuticle with ornamented annules with longitudinal rows of ridges or spines, a large rounded head capsule, large and multispiral amphideal fovea, and pharynx with a rounded or only slightly prolonged terminal bulb ( Verschelde et al. 1998; Tchesunov 2014).