''Caenorhabditis latens'' is a species of nematodes. Prior to 2014, it was referred to as ''

Caenorhabditis ''Caenorhabditis'' is a genus of nematodes which live in bacteria-rich environments like compost piles, decaying dead animals and rotting fruit. The name comes from Greek: caeno- (καινός (caenos) = new, recent); rhabditis = rod-like (ῥά ...

sp. 23''. The reference strain VX88 was isolated from soil near a lotus pond and strain VX85 was isolated from soil under rotten grass in Juifeng Village,

Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city an ...

City, Hubei Province, China. This species groups with '' C. remanei'' in the 'Elegans' supergroup in phylogenetic studies Kiontke, Karin; Félix, Marie-Anne, Ailion, Michael; Rockman, Matthew V.; Braendle, Christian; Pénigault, Jean-Baptiste; Fitch, David H. A. (21 November 2011). "A phylogeny and molecular barcodes for ''Caenorhabditis'', with numerous new species from rotting fruits". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11:339,

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Strain VX85
at Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, University of Minnesota
Strain VX88
at Caenorhabditis Genetics Center, University of Minnesota
RhabditinaDB
at Department of Biology, New York University

latens ''Caenorhabditis latens'' is a species of nematodes. Prior to 2014, it was referred to as ''Caenorhabditis sp. 23''. The reference strain VX88 was isolated from soil near a lotus pond and strain VX85 was isolated from soil under rotten grass in Ju ...

Nematodes described in 2014 Fauna of China {{Rhabditida-stub