Rev 03/10/2020
Tylenchida Tylenchina Criconematoidea Hemicycliophoridae
Caloosia longicaudata (Loos, 1948) Siddiqi & Goodey, 1963
Caloosia longicaudata is the type species of the genus.
Female:
Male
Ref: Van den Berg et al., 2011
Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:
Originally reported fro Sri Lanka by Loos (1948) and subsequently from Fiji and the Hawaiian Islands (Van den Berg et al., 2011)/
Migratory ectoparasite of plant roots.
Ecophysiological Parameters:
Sexually reproducing, males common, sperm observed in spermatheca.
Host Plant Resistance, Non-hosts and Crop Rotation alternatives:
Loos, C.A. 1948. Notes on free-living and plant-parasitic nematodes of Ceylon 3. Ceylon Jour. Science (B) 23:119-124.
Van den Berg, E., Tiedt, L.R., Subbotin, S.A. 2011. Morphological and molecular characterisation of Caloosia longicaudata (Loos, 1948) Siddiqi & Goodey, 1963 (Nematoda: Caloosiidae) from Maui, the Hawaiian Islands with notes on some species of the genus. Nematology 13:381-393.