Family Bodonematidae

                                 Revised 01/07/26

Classification:

Nematoda

Chromadorea

Chromadoria

Chromadoria

Araeolaimida

Araeolaimoidea

Bodonematidae Jensen, 1991

Type genus of the family: Bodonema Jensen, 1991

A small family of free-living marine nematodes. Microbial feeding nematodes of the deep benthos.

• Pharynx differentiated into three regions

• Buccal cavity tubular with sclerotized walls continuing into a long tubular portion with sclerotized walls and surrounded by a muscular sheath

•  Mid-pharynx region with a series of bulbs each with sclerotized inner walls, ans a posterior region without sclerotized inner walls consisting of a narrow part and terminating in a pyriform bulb. 

• Ovaries are outstretched; aprogaster ipresent

• The equally long setae of second and third crown of cephalic sensilla suggested to Jensen a position in the Axonolaimoidea, nut late moved to the Araeolaimoidea

Ref: Jensen, 1991

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References:

Jensen, P. 1991. Bodonematidae fam. n. (Nematoda: Monhysterida) accommodating Bodonema vossi (gen. et sp. n. from the deep-sea benthos of the Norwegian Sea. Sarsia 76: 11-75.

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