Sabatieriinae Filipjev, 1934

Barnes, Natalie, Kim, Hyeong Geun & Lee, Wonchoel, 2012, New species of free-living marine Sabatieriinae (Nematoda: Monhysterida: Comesomatidae) from around South Korea *, Zootaxa 3368 (1), pp. 263-290 : 265

Subfamily Sabatieriinae Filipjev, 1934

Remarks. The Sabatieriinae is comprised of 7 genera ( Actarjania Hopper 1967 , Cervonema Wieser 1954 , Laimella Cobb 1920 , Pierrickia Vitiello 1970 , Sabatieria De Rouville 1903 , Scholpanialla Sergeeva 1972 , Setosabatieria Platt 1985 ), and although Platt (1985) concluded that they shared no unique characters (they are “described as lacking the derived features of the other two families”), in addition to the family characters, the Sabatieriinae generally have a weakly sclerotized buccal cavity, posterior section as a collapsed tube. Spicules enlarged proximally, gubernacular apophyses (is) paired or single. Also, Laimella , Cervonema and Setosabatieria exhibit a striate cuticle, rarely minutely punctations have been observed in Laimella ( Ward 1974; Jensen 1979).