Alaimus elegans de Man.

Allgén, C. A., 1953, Terrestrial nematodes from Jan Mayen, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 (6), pp. 665-688 : 669

Alaimus elegans de Man. (Fig. 1.)

de M a n 1921, p. 5, ph 1, fig. 1-1d.

Dimensions.—Body-length= l.899 mm., max. width =0.0 1 8 mm., oesophagus ~0.4 1 8 mm., tail:0.1 4 8 mm., v u l v a:0. 0 2 5 mm., ~ ~109.5, β =4.5 4, γ = 12.83, V =5 3.9 8 per cent.

This species agrees precisely with de Man's (1921) description o f A. elegans , the length of the b o d y being twice as long as in A. primitivus a n d is distinctly narrower.