Bio-Oceanography and Marine Biology, Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria..
Zootaxa. 2021 Mar 25;4949(2):zootaxa.4949.2.8. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.2.8.
A new genus of the marine Stilbonematinae (Nematoda, Desmodoridae) is described from the Pacific coast of the United States of America. The worms inhabit the sulfidic sediment among the roots of the surfgrass Phyllospadix sp. in the rocky intertidal. The ectosymbiotic coat is of a new type for Stilbonematinae. It consists of rod-shaped bacteria pointed at both poles densely attached with one pole to the host cuticle. This is the first report of this symbiotic nematode subfamily from the US West Coast.
描述了一种来自美国太平洋海岸的海洋 Stilbonematinae（线虫，Desmodoridae）新属。这些蠕虫栖息在岩质潮间带中 surfgrass Phyllospadix sp. 的根部周围的硫化沉积物中。外共生外套是 Stilbonematinae 的一种新型结构。它由两端尖锐的杆状细菌组成，一端密集地附着在宿主的角质层上。这是该共生线虫亚科在美国西海岸的首次报道。
