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Body short fat, fusiform, cuticle with 12–44 large main rings, most with 17, separated by narrower or equally wide interzones with one to five annules. Amphid circular to oval in shape. Paired thick subdorsal and subventral somatic on different main rings alternately. A pair of red-brownish pigment spots (ocelli) often present in the ventricular part of anterior intestine. Pharynx short and cylindrical.
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Huang, Y., Guo, Y. (2022). Order Desmoscolecida Filipjev, 1929. In: Free-living Marine Nematodes from the East China Sea. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3836-7_8
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