Species Onyx macramphis Blome & Riemann, 1994

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• Onyx macramphis Blome, D. & Riemann, F. 1994. Sandy beach meiofauna of Eastern Australia (Southern Queensland and New South Wales). III. Revision of the Nematode Genus Onyx Cobb, 1891, with a description of three new species (Nematoda: Desmodoridae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8(6): 1483-1492 [1484].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G211348 ♂ (collected 6.iv.1992 by D. Blome), Beach AR1, Arrawarra Headland (35 km north of Coffs Harbour), New South Wales, Australia.
  Paratype(s) QM G211349 ♀1 (collected 6.iv.1992 by D. Blome), Beach AR1, Arrawarra Headland (35 km north of Coffs Harbour), New South Wales, Australia; QM G211350 ♂ juvenile, moulting stage (collected 6.iv.1992 by D. Blome), Beach AR1, Arrawarra Headland (35 km north of Coffs Harbour), New South Wales, Australia
  Comment: other non-type material ♂9, ♀2, gravid ♀1, 3, from beach AR1, Arrawarra Headland (35 km north of Coffs Harbour), NSW, Australia, collected by D. Blome on 6.iv.1992; ♂1, from AR2, Arrawarra Headland, collected by D. Blome on 7.iv.1992.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Dolphin Beach, NSW Australia.

General References

Nicholas, W.L. 2001. Seasonal variations in nematode assemblages on an Australian temperate ocean beach; the effect of heavy seas and unusually high tides. Hydrobiologia 464: 17-26 [20] (distribution — Dolphin Beach, NSW)

Nicholas, W.L. & Hodda, M. 1999. The free-living nematodes of a temperate, high energy, sandy beach: faunal composition and variation over space and time. Hydrobiologia 394: 113-127 [116] (distribution — Dolphin Beach, NSW)

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