Family
Aulolaimoididae
Revised
08/03/20
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 tisse, 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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