WoRMS taxon details
Dioctophyma renale (Goeze, 1782)
AphiaID: 159607
AphiaID: 159607
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Nematoda (Phylum) > Adenophorea (Class) > Adenophorea incertae sedis (Subclass) > Dioctophyma (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Dioctophyma Lamouroux, 1824 | |||||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Cobscook Bay [details] Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | parasite [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: parasitic [details] Dimensions: generally, less than 1 mm [details] Distribution: unknown; lack of study done on this group in the Bay of Fundy and surrounding waters [details] Habitat: generally, all substrata and in all sorts of hosts, both vertebrate and invertebrate [details] Reproduction: sexes are separate and dimorphic (males smaller than females); fertilization internal, eggs retained through hatching [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159607 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Vanaverbeke, J. (2013). Dioctophyma renale (Goeze, 1782). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159607 on 2013-05-18 | ||||||||||||||
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