Marine Species Traits - Paracomesoma hexasetosum (Chitwood, 1937) Hopper, 1967

Traits taxon details

Paracomesoma hexasetosum (Chitwood, 1937) Hopper, 1967

AphiaID

229092 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:229092)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Paracomesoma Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950

Original name

Laimella hexasetosa Chitwood, 1937

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Chitwood, B. G. (1937). A new genus and ten new species of marine nematodes from North Carolina. Proc. Helminth. Soc. Wash. 4: 54-59. [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Paracomesoma hexasetosum (Chitwood, 1937) Hopper, 1967. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=229092 on 2026-02-18

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Paracomesoma hexasetosum (Chitwood, 1937) Hopper, 1967. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=229092 on 2026-02-18

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2006-05-15 14:18:20Z

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original description (of ) Chitwood, B. G. (1937). A new genus and ten new species of marine nematodes from North Carolina. Proc. Helminth. Soc. Wash. 4: 54-59. [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Riera, R.; Nunez, J.; Brito M.D.C. (2006). Two new species of Comesomatidae Filipjev, 1922 (Nematoda: Chromadorida) from sandy bottoms of Tenerife, Canary Islands. Zootaxa. 1126: 53–61., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1126.1.4 [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Zhang, Z. (1991). Two new species of marine nematodes from Bohai Sea, China. Journal of ocean university of Qingdao. 21 (2). [details] Available for editors

additional source Hopper, B. E. (1967). Free-living marine nematodes from Biscayne Bay, Florida. I. Comesomatidae: the male of Laimella longicauda Cobb, 1920, and description of Actarjania new genus. Marine Biology. 1: 140-144., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00386520 [details] Available for editors

Definitions

To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nematoda Collection (1 record)
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