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Entry Number: 37753

Disposition of Sample
Specimens to USDANC (Type)
Nematode
Actinolaimus michaelseni
Origin
South-West Africa Neudamm, Farm Franenstein, 50 km ENE of Windhoek
Collector
Michaelsen
Slides
T-592t
Author
G. Steiner (1916)
Reference
Nematodes. pp. 377-411 in: W. Michaelsen (ed.) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Land- und Süßwasserfauna Deutsch-Südwestafrikas: Ergebnisse der Hamburger deutsch-südwestafrikanischen Studienreise 1911, Band I. (1914-1916)
Remarks
Female holotype. (part of Steiner's Mermithid Collection) Origin/country: South-West Africa was not the independent nation Namibia until 1990.