Family APHELENCHIDAE

                                 Rev 08/03/2020

Classification:

 Morphology and Anatomy:    

Family characterized by large metacorpus (median bulb), esophageal glands
      usually not enclosed in a bulb (overlapping). Dorsal esophageal gland
      opens into metacorpus.

 
      Maggenti suggested that the Aphelenchina are an earlier evolutionary group than the Tylenchina.

• Stylet with or without small basal thickenings.
• Esophagus with overlapping glands, or contained in posterior bulb.
• Spicules long, slender; gubernaculum V-shaped.
• Caudal alae present or absent, when present, pelodearn, supported by ribs.
• Soil inhabiting fungivores.

Type Genus.--Aphelenchus Bastian, 1865

Ref: Nickle, 1970

References:

Nickle, W.R. 1970. A Taxonomic Review of the Genera of the Aphelenchoidea (Fuchs, 1937) Thorne, 1949 (Nematoda: Tylenchida) . J. Nematology 2:375-392.

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