Family
Aulolaimoididae
Revised
02/08/25
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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