Nemys - Hopperia indiana Muthumbi, Soetaert & Vincx, 1997

Nemys taxon details

Hopperia indiana Muthumbi, Soetaert & Vincx, 1997

AphiaID

221271 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:221271)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Hopperia Vitiello, 1969

Orig. name

Hopperia indiana Muthumbi, Soetaert & Vincx, 1997

Environment

marine, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Muthumbi, A. W.; Soetaert, K.; Vincx, M. (1997). Deep-sea nematodes from the Indian Ocean: new and known species of the family Comesomatidae. Hydrobiologia. 346: 25-57. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomic citation

Nemys eds. (2024). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Hopperia indiana Muthumbi, Soetaert & Vincx, 1997. Accessed at: https://www.nemys.ugent.be/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=221271 on 2024-04-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2000-04-19 00:42:52Z

created

Fondo, Esther

2011-10-25 09:59:22Z

changed

Vanaverbeke, Jan

2016-04-01 22:35:16Z

changed

Leduc, Daniel

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original description Muthumbi, A. W.; Soetaert, K.; Vincx, M. (1997). Deep-sea nematodes from the Indian Ocean: new and known species of the family Comesomatidae. Hydrobiologia. 346: 25-57. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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context source (Deepsea) Miljutin, D. M.; Gad, G.; Miljutina, M. M.; Mokievsky, V. O.; Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Esteves, A. M. (2010). The state of knowledge on deep-sea nematode taxonomy: how many valid species are known down there?. Marine Biodiversity. 40(3): 143-159., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-010-0041-4 [details] Available for editors

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additional source De Ward, C. T. P. (2004). New species of Hopperia (Nematoda, Comesomatidae) and Metachromadora (Nematoda, Desmodoridae) from Patagonia, Chubut, Argentina. Zootaxa. 542 : 1-15. [details] Available for editors

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Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From other sources

Remark Is characterised by short conical anterior sensilla, cuticle punctated with lateral differentiation of larger dots, spicules which possess a 'velum' and a gubernaculum with long and sharp pointed apophysis. [details]