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One new free-living marine nematode species of genus Cephalanticoma from the South China Sea

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One new species of free-living marine nematode Cephalanticoma brevicaudata sp. nov. from the South China Sea is described. Cephalanticoma brevicaudata sp. nov. is characterized by spindle body with relatively short tail; head with cephalic capsule; three teeth at anterior of pharynx; excretory pore opens posterior to cervical setae; three cervical setae per file; spicules arcuate, cephalate and ventrally bent proximally, and blunt distally, 1.8 a.b.d. long, without ventral ala; gubernaculun slender, simple rod, without apophyses; tubular supplement 34 µm long, 2.3 a.b.d. in front of cloaca.

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    Yong Huang

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Foundation item: The National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract No. 30770250; the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under contract No. KZCX2-YW-417 to K Xu; the Open Research Cruise offshore China by R/V KE XUE SAN HAO, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) in 2007.

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Huang, Y. One new free-living marine nematode species of genus Cephalanticoma from the South China Sea. Acta Oceanol. Sin. 31, 95–97 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-012-0180-5

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