Family Chrysonematidae

                                 Revised 01/09/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

Class Enoplea
Subclass Dorylaimia
 Order Dorylaimida

Chrysonematidae Siddiqi, 1969

Family sometimes coalesced with Crateronematidae

A family of nematodes inhabiting wet soil and freshwater environments; freshwater bottom sediments and aquatic plants..


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A family of nematodes inhabiting wet soil and freshwater environments; freshwater bottom sediments and aquatic plants..

References

Andrássy, I. 2009. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary III.  Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. 608p.

Siddiqi, M.R. 1969. Crateronema n. gen. (Crateronematidae n. fam.), Poronemella n. gen. (Lordellonematinae n. sub-fam.) and Chrysonemoides n. gen. (Chrysonematidae n. fam. ), With a Revised Classification of Dorylaimoidea (Nematoda). Nematology 15:81-100.

Yeates, G.W., T. Bongers, R. G. M. De Goede, D. W. Freckman, and S. S. Georgieva. 1993. Feeding habits in soil nematode families and genera—An outline for soil ecologists. Journal of Nematology 25:315-331.

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