Spiriniinae Gerlach & Murphy 1965
Creators: name: Armenteros, Maickel
name: Ruiz-Abierno, Alexei
name: Decraemer, Wilfrida
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Nematoda
Adenophorea
Desmodorida
Desmodoridae

description: Key to the genera of Spiriniinae
1. Cuticle coarsely striated..................................................................................................................... 2
– Cuticle finely striated......................................................................................................................... 4
2. Tail conical-cylindrical ............................................................... Spirodesma Cavalcanti et al., 2009
– Tail conical......................................................................................................................................... 3
3. Amphidial fovea on a cuticular plate, somatic setae present and spines absent.................................. ............................................................................................................ Stygodesmodora Blome, 1982
– Amphidial fovea not on a cuticular plate, somatic setae and spines present....................................... ......................................................................................................... Echinodesmodora Blome, 1982
4. Buccal cavity spacious, parallel and sclerotized walls ...................................................................... 5
– Buccal cavity approximately conical (of large or medium size) or minute....................................... 6
5. Amphidial fovea multispiral, buccal armature with one dorsal tooth and no ventrosublateral teeth .. ............................................................................................................ Parallelocoilas Boucher, 1975
– Amphidial fovea cryptospiral, buccal armature with one dorsal tooth and two ventrosublateral teeth......................................................................................... Pseudometachromadora Timm, 1952
6. Buccal cavity small-sized, one minute dorsal tooth .......................................................................... 7
– Buccal cavity from medium to larger size, dorsal tooth large ........................................................... 8
7. Tail conical and finely striated........................................................................ Spirinia Gerlach, 1963
– Tail conical-cylindrical (including filiform) and coarsely striated ...................................................... ..................................................................................................... Perspiria (Wieser & Hopper, 1967)
8. Single or multiple pharyngeal posterior bulb muscular enlarged and internal lining of the pharynx thickened............................................................................................................................................ 9
– Single pharyngeal posterior bulb rounded and internal lining of the pharynx not thickened.......... 12
9. Dorsal tooth large spear-like, precloacal supplements S-shaped............................. Onyx Cobb, 1891
– Dorsal tooth not spear-like, precloacal supplements not S-shaped ................................................. 10
10. Pharynx posterior bulb barrel-shaped, buccal cavity large-sized, dorsal tooth prominent.................. ......................................................................................................... Metachromadora Filipjev, 1918
– Pharynx posterior bulb other shaped, buccal cavity medium-sized .................................................11
11. Pharynx posterior bulb divided in 2–4 bulbi, outer labial sensilla setiform, subcephalic setae present, precloacal supplements as cuticular plates ........................................ Chromadoropsis Filipjev, 1918
– Pharynx posterior bulb not divided in bulbi, outer labial sensilla papilliform, subcephalic setae absent, precloacal supplements as papillae............................... Papillonema Verschelde et al., 1995
12. Precloacal supplements S-shaped................................................................... Polysigma Cobb, 1920
– Precloacal supplements with other shape or absent......................................................................... 13
13. Subcephalic setae present .................................................................... Chromaspirina Filipjev, 1918
– Subcephalic setae absent........................................... Paradesmodora Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1942
description: Published as part of Armenteros, Maickel, Ruiz-Abierno, Alexei & Decraemer, Wilfrida, 2014, Revision of Desmodorinae and Spiriniinae (Nematoda: Desmodoridae) with redescription of eight known species, pp. 1-32 in European Journal of Taxonomy 96 on pages 26-27, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.96, http://zenodo.org/record/3838898