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Order Chromadorida Chitwood, 1933

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Body 0.5–1.5 mm long; buccal cavity conical with one dorsal and two subventral solid teeth; four cephalic setae; cuticle homogeneous with lateral differentiation of longitudinal rows of dots; precloacal supplements cup-shaped; tail conical.

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Huang, Y., Guo, Y. (2022). Order Chromadorida Chitwood, 1933. In: Free-living Marine Nematodes from the East China Sea. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3836-7_6

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