Caenorhabditis inopinata - prior to 2017 referred to as C. sp. 34. - is a sister species to C. elegans (it is classified in the 'Elegans' supergroup).
The specific epithet comes from the Latin inopinus (“unexpected”).
This gonochoristic (male-female) species was isolated from figs (Ficus septica) and fig wasps in Ishigaki Island, in Japan. It was recovered by N. Kanzaki in 2013.LIST_OF_AVAILABLE_CAENORHABDITIS_SPECIES_and_the_state_of_their_genome_projects at evolution.wormbase.org It is a larger species than C. elegans.
Its genome is being sequenced at the University of Miyazaki.Kikuchi T., Tsai I., Berriman M., Sugimoto A. and Kanzaki N. Evolutionary insights from the genome, morphology and natural history of Caenorhabditis inopinata, the sister species of C. elegans
References
External links Caenorhabditis inopinata sequencing project at NCBI Caenorhabditis inopinata sequencing project at trace.ddbj.nig.ac.jp