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Nematode Collection Database
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Entry Number: 3298

Disposition of Sample
Specimens to USDANC (Type)
Nematode
Dorylaimus obscurus
Host
(Bullen Field) in/on Soil
Origin
USA Utah Lewiston
Collector
G. Thorne
Date Collected
1925 Dec 10
Date Received
1925 Dec 10
Slides
T-492t (Lectotype); T-4375p, T-4376p, T-4377p, T-4378p, 4379p (Paralectotypes)
Author
P. De Ley, P. A. A. Loof & A. Coomans
Reference
Biologie (1993) 63: 13-34
Remarks
Note: Thorne's slide 88d. Note: D. obscurus was placed in the genus Aporcelaimellus obtusicaudatus in 1993 by De Ley. Original Description: G. Thorne & H. H. Swanger. 1936. Capita Zoologica 6:1-223.