Enchodelus saxifragae Popovici, 1995

Ciobanu, Marcel, Popovici, Iuliana, Guerrero, Pablo & Santiago, Reyes Peña-, 2010, Nematodes of the order Dorylaimida from Romania. The genus Enchodelus Thorne, 1939. 3. Species with rounded tail and long odontostyle, Nematology 12 (4), pp. 609-618 : 615-617

Enchodelus saxifragae Popovici, 1995

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MATERIAL EXAMINED

Six females from Suhardu Mic Mountains, three females from Parâng Mountains, two female paratypes and two male paratypes from Retezat Mountains.

MEASUREMENTS

NEW OBSERVATIONS ON MALE (BASED ON THE TWO PARATYPES AVAILABLE)

Adcloacal pair of supplements situated at 13.5 or 13.0 µ m from cloacal aperture posterior ventromedian supplement at 19.5 or 30 µ m from adcloacal pair, ventromedian supplements 9-24 µ m apart. Spicules rather robust, 5.3 or 4.4 times as long as wide and 1.7 anal body diam. long. Lateral guiding piece also robust, distinctly falcate in posterior half, furcate at tip, 14 or 16.5 µ m long and ca 4.0 or 3.3 times as long as wide.

DISTRIBUTION

Cliff vegetation, Suhardu Mic Mountain, Hăşmaş Mountains (Eastern Romanian Carpathians); subalpine meadow, Coasta lui Rus, Parâng Mountains (Southern Romanian Carpathians); cliff vegetation on Albele Peak and the Piatra Iorgovanului area, Retezat Mountains (Southern Romanian Carpathians); sites nos 3, 7-9 in Table 1.

REMARKS

The females examined perfectly fit the original description ( Popovici, 1995) as well as the Iberian specimens recently studied by Guerrero et al. (2008). However, some differences have been noted in male features, such as the peculiar morphology of the lateral guiding pieces, a character which might be a relevant diagnostic feature of this species.

Figures

Fig. 4. Enchodelus saxifragae Popovici, 1995. A: Female, entire; B-D: Anterior region in median, lateral view; E: Vagina; F: Pharyngeal expansion; G, H: Female genital system; I: Male posterior region; J, K: Female caudal region; L, M: Spicule. (Scale bars: A = 200 µm; B, C, F-I = 20 µm; D, E, J-M = 10 µm.)