Camelodera eremophila

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Classification:

Tylenchida
       Tylenchina
        Tylenchoidea
         Heteroderidae
          Ataloderinae

Camelodera eremophila Krall, Shagolina & Ivanova, 1988

Type speciers of the genus

Synonyms:

Morphology and Anatomy:

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

Female:

No cyst stage.
Body long ovoid to globose with prominent neck and terminal cone.
Excretory pore posterior to median bulb.
Cuticle thin and asmooth, pearly white; becomers brown after deth of female but remains soft.
Vulva terminal, on con; no fenestration; vulval slit long with rounded lips.
No phasmids.
No remnant of tail.
Eggs depsited in egg sac.

Male:

Body twisted.
With tail

Juveniles:

Mean length < 400um which is shoreter than all other Ataloderinae juveniles.

Ref: Kral et al., 1988; Andrassy, 2007)

Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:

Distribution:

Reported from Kara Kum desert of the Turkmenian SSR from roots of Calligonum arborescens (buckwheat family, (Polygonaceae).

Type locality is the Yeradzhi desert reserve 70 km north of the Repetek Desert Station in Tshardzou district, Eastern Turkmenia, USSR.

Feeding:

Feeding site in root a nurse cell system: a single, giant cell with a single, giant nucleus. Forms galls on roots.

Hosts:

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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Management:

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References:

Andrassy, I. 2007. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary II, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest

Krall, E.L., Shagolina \, L. and Ivanova, T. 1988. A new desert-inhabiting genus and species of nematodes Camelodera eremophila gen. n. sp. (nematoda, Heteroderidae, Ataloderinae). Bioloogia zvestija akademii nauk estonskoj SSR 371:27-36.