Hopperia

Hopperia
Hopperia beaglense
Hopperia ancora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Araeolaimida
Family: Comesomatidae
Genus: Hopperia
Vitiello, 1969
Diversity
18 species, see text

Hopperia is a genus of chromadorid nematodes that belongs to the family Comesomatidae.

Hopperia ancora
Hopperia beaglense
H. ancora
B. beaglense

Distribution

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.

Taxonomy

The genus is a chromadorid nematode of the order Araeolaimida. It is more specifically a member of the family Comesomatidae. The species H. metatypica was originally described as a member of the genus Dorylaimopsis. However several studies have moved it to this genus due to its lateral differentiation consisting of larger, irregularly-distributed coarse dots.

Species

This genus currently contains 18 described species. A list of them can be found below:

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Hopperia Vitiello, 1969". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Huang, Mian; Li, Xueqing (2026-04-16). "Description of two new Nematoda species of the genus Dorylaimopsis Ditlevsen, 1918 (Comesomatidae, Araeolaimida, Nematoda) from the Yellow Sea, China". ZooKeys (1277): 227–243. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1277.169673. ISSN 1313-2970.
  3. ↑ Fu, Sujing; Leduc, Daniel; Rao, Yiyong; Cai, Lizhe (2019-05-21). "Three new free-living marine nematode species of Dorylaimopsis (Nematoda: Araeolaimida: Comesomatidae) from the South China Sea and the Chukchi Sea". Zootaxa. 4608 (3). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4608.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 31717131.
  4. ↑ Guo, Yuqing; Chang, Yu; Chen, Yuzhen; Li, Yongxiang; Liu, Aiyuan (2015-12-01). "Description of a marine nematode Hopperia sinensis sp. nov. (Comesomatidae) from mangrove forests of Quanzhou, China, with a pictorial key to Hopperia species". Journal of Ocean University of China. 14 (6): 1111–1115. Bibcode:2015JOUC...14.1111G. doi:10.1007/s11802-015-2742-6. ISSN 1993-5021.