Aborjinia Oezdikmen , 2010

Zograf, Julia K., Semenchenko, Alexander A. & Mordukhovich, Vladimir V., 2024, New deep-sea species of Aborjinia (Nematoda, Leptosomatidae) from the North-Western Pacific: an integrative taxonomy and phylogeny, ZooKeys 1189, pp. 231-256 : 231

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1189.111825

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Aborjinia Oezdikmen , 2010
status

 

Aborjinia Oezdikmen, 2010

Diagnosis

(emended after Tchesunov and Spiridonov 1985; Miljutin 2003, 2014a). Very large nematodes; at the larval stage parasitize marine invertebrates. Adult worms are free-living. Three lips. Pharynx cylindrical, muscular, with tri-radial internal lumen. Rectum and anus present. Outer labial and cephalic sensilla papilliform, situated in one circle. Amphideal fovea small, pore-like. Cervical setae absent. Excretory-secretory system consists of two cells. Female reproductive system didelphic, amphidelphic, ovaries hologonic. Male reproductive system didelphic, testes outstretched. Tail convex-conoid, broadly rounded.

Type species.

Aborjinia eulagiscae (Tchesunov & Spiridonov, 1985): Özdikmen 2010, by original designation [= Australonema eulagiscae Tchesunov & Spiridonov, 1985].

Invalid species.

Aborjinia corallicola Westerman, de Moura Neves, Ahmed & Holovachov, 2021.

= Paraborjinia corallicola (Westerman, de Moura Neves, Ahmed & Holovachov, 2021), comb. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Nematoda

Class

Polychaeta

Order

Enoplida

Family

Leptosomatidae