Endeolophos Boucher, 1976

Datta, Tridip Kumar & Al-Helal, Md. Abdullah, 2023, Review of Euchromadorinae (Nematoda: Chromadorida) with description of a new species of Trochamus Boucher & De Bovée, 1971 from the Sundarban, India, Zootaxa 5278 (3), pp. 493-510 : 495

Endeolophos Boucher, 1976 (after Holovachov et al. 2011)

Body cuticle with homogeneous ornamentation along the body: each annule with very fine and numerous longitudinal ridges. Lateral differentiation in shape of a subcuticular discontinuity in cuticle pattern along the lateral sectors of the body. The six outer labial and four cephalic sensilla setiform are arranged in a single circle. Amphidial fovea a transverse slit. Buccal cavity has a small dorsal tooth and tiny ventrosublateral denticles. Pharynx has no defined terminal bulb. Female reproductive system is didelphic, amphidelphic. Vagina has no sclerotizations. Male reproductive system is monodelphic, prodelphic. Spicules well developed. Gubernaculum is slightly arcuate, plate-like, with or without apophyses. Telamons absent. Precloacal and postcloacal supplementary organs are absent.

Type species: E. minutus ( Gerlach, 1967) Boucher, 1976

List of valid species:

E. fossiferus ( Wieser, 1954) Boucher, 1976

E. minutus ( Gerlach, 1967) Boucher, 1976

E. skeneae Holovachov, Bostrom, Reid, Warén & Schander, 2011

E. spinosus ( Gerlach, 1957) Boucher, 1976

E. subterraneus Blome, 1982