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Specimen #37896

Specimen record details
Entry Number 37896
Nematode Genus Dorylaimus
Nematode Species merogaster
Country South-West Africa
City/Locale Grootfontein
Collector Michaelsen
Date Collected 1911 Jun 7-11
Determined By Gotthold Steiner
Taxon Author G. Steiner (1916)
Disposition of Sample Specimens to USDANC (Type)
Sample Number SM-2275
Slide Number T-590t
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 Holotype female. (part of Steiner's Mermithid Collection) Origin/country: South-West Africa was not the independent nation Namibia until 1990.