Rev 02/21/2022
Diagnosis Rhabditoidea or Cahmbersielloidea or Panagrolaimoidea Small family currently with three genera, all from tropical rainforest areas of Afriaca, Oceania and Central America. |
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In a 1978 description of Bicirronema as a member of the family Chambersiellidae, Andrassy, 1978 proposed the following structure: Fam. Chambersiellidae Thorne, 1937 Subfam. Chambersiellinae Thorne, 1937 Chambersiella Cobb, 1920 Geraldius Sanwal, 1971 Subfam. Bicirronematinae n. subfam. (Later elevated to family level by DeLey, 1997) Bicirronema n. gen. Subfam. Macrolaiminae Sanwal, 1971 Diastolaimus Rahm, 1928 Syn. Santafea Massey, 1963 ď Macrolaimellus Andrassy, 1966 Macrolainus Maupas, 1900 Syn. Seleneella Rahm, 1932
By 1997, De Ley had elevated the subfamily Bicirronematinae to family level: Bicirronematidae. The Chambersiellidae and Bicirronematidae history seems to go like this:
References:Andrassy, I. 1978. Bicirronema caledoniense n. gen., n. sp. and Amphidirhabditis longipapillata n. gen., n. sp. (Secernentia : Rhabditida), two rernarkable soil-nernatodes from New Caledonia. Rev. Nématol. 1 : 257-263 Chitwood, B. G. 1933. On some nematodes of the
superfamily Rhabditoidea and their status as parasites of reptiles and
amphibians. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 23: 508-520. De Ley, P. 1997. The current state of affairs in
identification and diagnosis of genera of the family Cephalobidae
(Nematode: Rhabditida). Meded. Fac. Landbouw. Toegen Biol. Weten. Univ,
Gent 62(3a) 657-673. Holavachov, O. and Bostrom, S. 2005. Description of Tricirronema tamdaoense sp. n.(Rhabditida: Bicirronematidae) from Vietnam. J. Nem. Morph. and Syst. 8:51-56. Massey, C. L. 1963. Santafea new genus (Rhabditoidea, Chambersie1lidae)
and a change in the systematic position of Macrolaimus Maupas, 1900. Proc.
He1minthol. Soc. Wash. 30: 26-28. Sanwal, K.C. (1971) Geraldius n.gen., Macolaiminae
n.subfam. with a revison of the subfamilies and genera of Chambersiellidae
(Nematoda). Canadian Journal of Zoology 49, 965-967. |
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