Family Aetholaimidae

                                 Revised 01/03/26

Classification:

     Aetholaimidae Jairajpuri, 1965

A family of soil-inhabiting nematodes.

• Body length 1.3-1.9 mm.
• Cuticle finely striated
• Labial region discoid
• Stoma actinolaimoid, bowl-shaped anterior vestibule with sclerotized thickenings and a posterior chamber with six sclerotized ribs.
• Spear-like nygolaimoid mural tooth.
• Basal section of esophagus covered by a thin sheath.
• Female genital system diovarial, amphidelphic, ovaries reflexed; vulva a transverse slit.
• Males unknown.
     
• Classified as predators (Yeates et al., 1993).

Ref: Andrássy, 2009

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References

Andrássy, I. 2009. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary III.  Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. 608p.

Yeates, G.W., T. Bongers, R. G. M. De Goede, D. W. Freckman, and S. S. Georgieva. 1993. Feeding habits in soil nematode families and genera—An outline for soil ecologists. Journal of Nematology 25:315-331.

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