Family Aulolaimoididae

                                 Revised 01/07/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

  Class Enoplea

    Subclass Dorylaimia

Order Dorylaimida

Aulolaimoididae, Jairajpuri, 1964     

• Mostly small nematodes, 0.4-1.9 mm long.
• Cuticle dorylaimoid
• Lip region usually continuous with lips amalgamated; or lips separate from adjacent body and protruding.
• Anterior stoma with rib-like supports.
• Odontostyle attenuated with very small aperture
• Odontophore with basal knoba or flanges
• Esophagus with 3 sections: anterior long and slender, expanding to a posterior part surrounded by glandular tissue, and a pysiform basal bulb with valve chamber.
• Female gonad didelphic amphidelphic or monodelphic opisthodelphic, vagina swollen
• Male with slender spicules, gubernaculum, up to four ventromedian supplements
• Tail in both sexes rounded to filiform.

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References

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

Peralta, M. and R. Pena-Santiago. 1996. Nematodes of the order Dorylaimida from Andalucia Oriental, Spain. The families Leptonchidae Thome, 1935 and Aulolaimoididae Jairajpuri, 1964. Fundamental and Applied Nematology 19:481-497.

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