Chordodes combiareolatus Schmidt-Rhaesa, Limatemjen & Yadav, 2015

Yadav, Arun K., Schmidt-Rhaesa, Andreas & Limatemjen,, 2017, First report of the Gondwana genus Beatogordius from India, with further records of two Chordodes species (Gordiida, Nematomorpha), ZooKeys 643, pp. 53-61 : 56-57

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.643.10506

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scientific name

Chordodes combiareolatus Schmidt-Rhaesa, Limatemjen & Yadav, 2015
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Chordodes combiareolatus Schmidt-Rhaesa, Limatemjen & Yadav, 2015 Figure 3 a–c

Locality.

Tzuden stream of Longjang village, Mokokchung district, Nagaland, India. Collected by Mr & Mrs Lanu Pongen.

Description.

Female specimen of 260 mm length and 1.5 mm in diameter. The cuticular characters correspond to the ones previously described by Schmidt-Rhaesa et al. (2015) for this species; the characteristic combination of simple and tubercular areoles are present (Fig. 3c). Crowned areoles were observed in different grades of completeness (Fig. 3a, b). The species had been described on the basis of a female specimen from Nagaland ( Schmidt-Rhaesa et al. 2015); the male remains unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Nematomorpha

Class

Gordioida

Order

Gordioidea

Family

Chordodidae

Genus

Chordodes