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Free-living marine nematodes from Biscayne Bay, Florida, I. Comesomatidae: the male of Laimella longicauda Cobb, 1920, and description of Actarjania new genus

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The male of Laimella longicauda Cobb, 1920 is described as having short arcuate spicules and a gubernaculum with caudally directed apophyses. The genus Paracomesoma Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950 is reinstated to accommodate species of Laimella sensu Chitwood, 1937. Paramesonchium n. gen. is proposed to accommodate Laimella (?) serialis Wieser, 1954. Actarjania n. gen. (type species A. splendens n. sp.) differs from Sabatieria in having irregular lateral rows of longitudinal punctations and short arcuate spicules with distinctive distal extremities.

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Hopper, B.E. Free-living marine nematodes from Biscayne Bay, Florida, I. Comesomatidae: the male of Laimella longicauda Cobb, 1920, and description of Actarjania new genus. Marine Biol. 1, 140–144 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00386520

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