Zalonema Cobb, 1920

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 : 507

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.5677398
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/020AF37C-FFC3-FFFD-FF7A-050080031665
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Zalonema Cobb, 1920
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Genus Zalonema Cobb, 1920 View in CoL (= Heterodesmodora Micoletzky, 1924 )

Type species: Z. nudum Cobb, 1920 now Z. megalosoma ( Steiner, 1918)

The genus Zalonema Cobb, 1920 (Desmodorinae) differs from the other genera of this subfamily by having a finely annulated cuticle, not marked by any longitudinal structures or lateral differentiation, a well-developed rounded triangular cephalic capsule, large and multispiral amphideal fovea, and presence of subcephalic setae ( Verschelde & Vincx 1996; Verschelde et al. 1998; Tchesunov 2014).