Marine nematodes of the family Draconematidae (Nemata): a synthesis with phylogenetic relationships |
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Authors: | Wilfrida Decraemer Nicole Gourbault Thierry Backeljau |
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Affiliation: | (1) Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, Vautierstraat 29, B.1000 Brussel, Belgium;(2) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, D.0699 CNRS, Biologie des Invertébrés marins, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France |
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Abstract: | The family Draconematidae is reviewed. Diagnoses of all taxa are updated or emended, basedupon an evaluation of diagnostic features. Aphylogenetic analysis at the genus level based onparsimony suggested that Tenuidraconema belongsto the Draconematinae. A new genus Bathychaetosoma is erected to accomodate B.uchidai (Kito, 1983). It is characterized by acephalic region with a smooth, non-thickened cuticleand numerous cephalic adhesion tubes located posteriorto the head region and extending over more than twohead diameters along the cervical region. |
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Keywords: | marine nematodes Draconematidae Bathychaetosoma taxonomy revision phylogeny |
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