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Nematode Collection Database
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Entry Number: 3322

Disposition of Sample
Specimens to USDANC (Type)
Nematode
Draconema cephalatum
Host
(Marine*) in/on Marine*
Origin
Jamaica Shoel, Kingston Harbour & an Island off Port Royal, Jamaica
Collector
N. A. Cobb
Date Collected
1910
Date Received
1910
Slides
T-241t (Lectotype), T-2476p (Paralectotype)
Author
M. W. Allen & E. M. Noffsinger
Reference
University of California Publications in Zoology (1978) 109: 1-133.
Remarks
* Marine, assoc. with sand at base of algae. Note: T-241t, Shoal, Kingston & T-2476p, an Island off Port Royal. Original Description: N. A. Cobb. 1929. Journal of the Washington Academy of Science 19:255-260.