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Classification:

Tylenchida
       Tylenchina
        Tylenchoidea
         Heteroderidae
          Ataloderinae

           Atalodera Wouts & Sher, 1971

Type species of the genus Atalodera ucri Wouts & Sher, 1971

    Synonyms:

Thecavermiculatus (Robbins, 1978) De Souza & Huang, 1994

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Cystoid nematodes in which the body wall of the female does not harden into a cyst.

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Female: 

  • No cyst stage.  
  • Body globose, with projecting neck and terminal cone.  
  • Cuticle thick, annulated on fore part of body, with lace-like pattern on the posterior part.  D-layer present.  No subcrystalline layer.
  • Vulva on prominent terminal cone, with thick cuticle, constituted by protruding and developed vulval lips.  
  • Anus situated on the side of posterior vulval lip.  
  • Eggs retained in body.  

 

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Male: 

  • Body twisted. 
  • Lateral field with four lines.
  • Spicules greater than 30 �m, slightly curved, obliquely directed.  
  • Tail short, hemispherical. 
  • Cloacal tubus shµort.
  • No phasmids.  

Second-stage juveniles:

[Ref: Luc, Maggenti & Fortuner,  (1988).]

Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:
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Distribution:

 

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Economic Importance:

 

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Feeding:

Nurse cell system: A syncytium.

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Hosts:

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Life Cycle:

For Ecophysiological Parameters for this genus, click 
 
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Damage:

 

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Management:

 

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References:

Baldwin J.G. & Bell, A.H.  1985.. Cactodera eremica n. sp., and Afenestrata africana (Luc et al., 1973) n. gen., n. comb. and an emended diagnosis of Sarisodera Wouts and Sher, 1971 (Heteroderidae). Journal of Nematology 17, 187- 201.

De Souza, R.M. and Huang, S.P. 1994a. Description of Atalodera gibbosa n. sp. and synonymization of Thecavermiculatus Robbins, 1978 to Atalodera Wouts & Sher, 1971 (Nemata: Heteroderidae). Fundamental and Applied Nematology, 17, 43�56.

De Souza, R.M. and Huang, S.P. 1994.b. Ultrastructure of the body cuticle of Atalodera gibbosa Souza & Huang, 1994 (Tylenchida :Heteroderinae) Fundamental and Applied Nematology 17:479-483.

Ghaderi, R. 2019. An outline on distribution and hosts of the cystoid nematodes of Ataloderinae Wouts, 1973 and Meloidoderinae Golden, 1971. Zootaxa 4664:: 339�350 https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/

Mundo-Ocampo, M., Troccoli, A., Subbotin, S.A., Del Cid, J., Baldwin, J.C., Inserra, R.N. 2008. Synonymy of Afenestrata with Heterodera supported by phylogenetics with molecular and morphological characterisation of H. koreana comb. n. and H. orientalis comb. n. (Tylenchida: Heteroderidae). Nematology 10:611-632.

Luc, Maggenti & Fortuner, Rev. Nematol. 11(2):159-176 (1988)

Robbins, R.T. 1978. A New Ataloderinae (Nematoda: Heteroderidae), Thecavermiculatus gracilancea n. gen., n. sp. J. Nematology 10:250-254.

 

 

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