Family Anticomidae

                                 Revised 06/13/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

Class Enoplea

Subclass Enoplia

Order Enoplida

Suborder Enoplina

Superfamily Enoploidea

Anticomidae Filipjev, 1918

Type genus of family: Anticoma Bastian, 1865

A family of free-living marine nematodes.

Characteristics of the family:

• Metanemes variable in form.
• Buccal cavity small and surrounded by pharyngeal tissue.
• Cephalic capsule very narrow, pharyngeal musculature inserts into it.
• Outline of pharynx wall smooth, not crenellate; pharyngeal glands open immediately posterior to the buccal cavity.
• Secretory-excretory pore situated on a spine-like projection in Paranticoma.
• Female reproductive system didelphic-amphidelphic with reflexed ovaries.
• Males diorchic or monorchic, most species have a precloacal tubule.
• Caudal glands completely within the tail.
• Marine habitats.

Ref: Smol et al., 2014

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References

Andrassy, I. 2009. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary (Nematoda Errantia) Vol. 111. Humgarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. 508p.

Golden, A.M. and D.G. Murphy, 1967. Encholaimoidea (Nematoda: Dorylaimida), a new superfamily representing dorylaimid specimens with cephalic setae. Proc. Helmith Soc Washington. 34:94-98.

Smol N, A Muthumbi and J Sharma. 2014. Handbook of Zoology. Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera. Vol 2. Nematoda. 7.3 Order Enoplida. Walter De Gruyter. pp. 193-246.

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