Order Mononchida

Rev. 03/20/24

• characterized by a strong, cuticularized stoma with one or more large teeth

• stoma may also have rows of denticles

• long, muscular cylindrical esophagus

• amphids small, cuplike; just posterior to the lateral lips; aperture slit-like

• predaceous and cannibalistic, juveniles may be bacterivores

• soil and freshwater, no marine forms.
     

      

Background Music: Mononchus matadora Lyrics: Soledad Villamil and Tianna Dupont Vocals: Las Chicas Internacionales (Soledad Villamil and Tianna Dupont)

Mononchid attacking prey Photomicrograph by Jon Eisenback (VPI).
Mononchus sp. ingesting Helicotylenchus pseudorobustus. Photomicrograph by Nicola Vovlas (IPP-CNR, Bari, Italy).

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