Chordodes caledoniensis

Description. The specimen is 290 mm long and has a diameter of 1.7 mm. The body color is medium brown and has a strong pattern of darker patches (“ leopard pattern ”). Simple areoles are rounded and have tiny “ knobs ” on the surface (Fig. 2 D). Others, slightly larger and more elevated, have a smooth surface; these may represent bulging areoles (Fig. 2 C). Tubercle areoles are present, and thorn areoles are very rare, but present. Crowned areole clusters are composed of a pair of crowned areoles with short apical filaments (<15 µm), surrounded by 8 – 12 broad and round circumcluster areoles with a smooth surface (Fig. 2 C, D). On both sides along the ventral midline are crowned areoles with long (> 100 µm) apical filaments (Fig. 2 E).

Sumber: Nematomorpha from Hong Kong and description of a new species from Malaysia

Description. One of the two specimens (named here specimen 1) was almost completely wrapped in larval cuticle (Fig. 7 H), which is torn open in several regions and allows selective views on the structure of the adult cuticle underneath (Fig. I, J). Specimen 2 was almost completely molted, but larval cuticle was still covering parts of the posterior end (Fig. 7 F). Both specimens are very small, specimen 1 is 65 mm long and specimen 2 measures 55 mm. Both have a diameter of 0.5 mm. The cuticle contains simple areoles which are irregular in structure, no surface substructure was observed (Fig. 7 D). Tubercle areoles are present (Fig. 7 C, D), thorn areoles were not observed. Bulging areoles occur on the cuticle, mostly in pairs (Fig. 7 D). They carry very short apical bristles (Fig. 7 D). Clusters composed of two crowned areoles and 8 – 10 circumcluster areoles are present (Fig. 7 C, D, E, G, I, J). Crowned areoles have short (about 10 µm) apical filaments (Fig. 7 C, D) that radiate towards all sides of the areole, which has a central depression on top (Fig. 7 C, D). Apical filaments can be slightly branched (Fig. 7 I). The circumcluster areoles resemble the bulging areoles in structure. On both sides along the ventral midline there are crowned areoles with very long (> 70 µm) apical filaments, these crowned areoles appear to have longer and shorter filaments (Fig. 7 B, E).