Australian Museum Journal Observations on the morphology and systematics of Thalassogenus Andrassy, 1973 (Nematoda: Thalassogeneridae n. fam.)
- Shortform:
- Orton Williams and Shamim Jairajpuri, 1984, Rec. Aust. Mus. 36(1): 1–5
- Author(s):
- Orton Williams, Ken J.; Shamim Jairajpuri, M.
- Year published:
- 1984
- Title:
- Observations on the morphology and systematics of Thalassogenus Andrassy, 1973 (Nematoda: Thalassogeneridae n. fam.)
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 36
- Issue:
- 1
- Start page:
- 1
- End page:
- 5
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.36.1984.321
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 15 June 1984
- Cover date:
- 15 June 1984
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- NEMATODA; TAXONOMY
- Digitized:
- 14 May 2009
- Available online:
- 16 July 2009
- Reference number:
- 321
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (177kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (2102kb PDF)
Abstract
Thalassogenus archaeops n.sp., the second species belonging to the extraordinary enoplid genus of predatory terrestrial nematodes first described by Andrássy (1973), is described from Western Samoa. The importance of the arrangement of the stoma, structure of the cardia and its accompanying glands, and the presence of an eye-spot and six caudal glands is discussed and a new family Thalassogeneridae is proposed for the genus.