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Specimen #37898

Specimen record details
Entry Number 37898
Nematode Genus Dorylaimus
Nematode Species merogaster
Country South-West Africa
City/Locale Neudamm, Farm Objituesa, 66 km NE of Windhoek
Collector Michaelsen
Date Collected 1911 May 13
Determined By Gotthold Steiner
Taxon Author G. Steiner (1916)
Disposition of Sample Specimens to USDANC (Type)
Sample Number SM-2277
Slide Number T-5328p
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 Paratype male. (part of Steiner's Mermithid Collection) Origin/country: South-West Africa was not the independent nation Namibia until 1990.