摘要
In order to investigate the biodiversity of free-living nematodes along the coast of the Yellow Sea,sediment samples were collected in a number of intertidal sites in recent years.In this area,the mean abundance of free-living nematodes is 1663±502 ind 10 cm^(-2),and more than 200 species have been found(Zhai et al.,2020;Hao et al.,2021,2022;Chu et al.,2023).Among them,species from the genera,Daptonema,Thalassomonhystera,Parodontophora and Bathylaimus,are the most common,while the species,Daptonema parabreviseta Huang&Sun,Parodontophora deltensis Zhang,Bathylaimus huanghaiensis Huang&Zhang and Thalassomonhystera siamensis Kito&Aryuthaka are in dominant.Here,a species belongs to the genus Ethmolaimus is identified as new to science,namely E.multispiralis sp.nov.It is also the first time for the genus reported in the Chinese sea area.
基金
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41676146)。