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Issue: Vol. 4238 No. 3: 6 Mar. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-03-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.3.6
Page range: 395–405
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Nematomorpha from Hong Kong and description of a new species from Malaysia

Centrum für Naturkunde, University Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, 20146 Hamburg, Germany.
University of Rhode Island, Department of Natural Resources Science, 1 Greenhouse Road, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881, USA.
Nematomorpha horsehair worms new species China Chordodes Gordionus Acutogordius SEM

Abstract

We report here for the first time horsehair worms (Nematomorpha) from Hong Kong (China). Most specimens belong to the genus Chordodes, and can be assigned to C. bipilus, C. caledoniensis and to C. cf. moutoni. Two specimens have a cuticular pattern resembling the South American species C. peraccae or C. bouvieri, but for Southeast Asia this pattern is new. These two specimens are reported here as Chordodes sp. Additionally, Gordionus chinensis was found. One new species, Acutogordius koljai, is described from Malaysia. It has a characteristically-structured region posterior to the postcloacal crescent which sets it apart from previously described species in this genus.

 

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