Genus Onyx Cobb, 1891

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• Onyx Cobb, N.A. 1891. Onyx and Dipeltis: new Nematode Genera, with a note on Dorylaimus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 6: 143-158 [146].

  Type species:

   Onyx perfectus Cobb, 1891 by original designation.
• Oistolaimus Ditlevsen, Hj. 1922. Papers from Dr Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-1916. III. Marine free-living Nematodes from the Auckland and Campbell islands. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 73: 1-32 [4].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

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 [1491] (diagnosis; annotated list of the species of Onyx)

Platt, H.M. & Warwick, R.M. 1988. Free-living Marine Nematodes. Part III. British Chromadorids. Synopses of the British Fauna. No. 38. New York : E.J. Brill & Dr. W. Backhuys 502 pp. (follow diagnosis of Onyx by Cobb (1891))

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