Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Desmodorida 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Classis: Chromadorea
Ordo: Desmodorida

Familia: Comesomatidae
Genus: Hopperia
Species: Hopperia ancora

Name

  • Hopperia ancora Leduc, 2012: 26, figs. 12-14, table 5
Holotype: NIC 84448, ♂, collected 7 Jun. 2007.
Type locality: Challenger Plateau (264 m water depth), 39.6463°S, 172.1530°E.
Etymology: The species name is derived from the Latin ancora (= anchor), in reference to the distal hook on the spicules.

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