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The nematode fauna in the sulphide‐rich brine seep and adjacent bottoms of the East Flower Garden, NW Gulf of Mexico. III. Enoplida
Author(s) -
JENSEN PREBEN
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
zoologica scripta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.204
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1463-6409
pISSN - 0300-3256
DOI - 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1986.tb00212.x
Subject(s) - fauna , petroleum seep , nematode , brine , biology , oceanography , ecology , botany , geology , chemistry , organic chemistry , methane
Six nematode species of the order Enoplida are described from the East Flower Garden at 72 m depth in the north‐western Gulf of Mexico. The material is from sandy and rocky bottom samples influenced or beyond the influence of a sulphide‐rich brine seep. Four species are new to science: Enoploides polysetosus sp.n., Leptosomatum woodsi sp.n., Culyptronema pulchrum sp.n. and Symploctoma brevispiculum sp.n. Mesacanthoides fibulatus Wieser & Hopper, 1967 and Cylicolaimus magnus (Villot, 1875) are redescribed and new characters are added to the existing descriptions.