Meloidoderita salina

Meloidoderita salina	Contents	Rev 02/23/2024
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Classification:

Tylenchida
      Criconematina
        Tylenchuloidea
       Tylenchulidae
Meloidoderitinae

          Meloidoderita salina Ashrafi, Mugniery, van Heese, van Aelst, Helder & Karssen, 2012.

    Synonyms:

      None.

Morphology and Anatomy:

See characteristics of the genus Meloidoderita

Female:

Mature females sedentary with small, swollen body and posterior protuberance;.
Stylet slightly dorsally curved 19.9 um long, with posteriorly sloping knobs
Nneck region irregular in shape and twisted;.
Well developed secretory-excretorypore, with sclerotized duct.
Large uterus with thick hyaline wall, filled with eggs.
Mature female transformed to cystoid,
Eggs deposited in an egg-mass and retained in cystoid.
Cystoids have a unique sub-cuticular hexagonal beaded pattern.

Ref: Ashrafi et al., 2012

Male:

No stylet, degenerate esophagus
Well-developed testis
Conical tail with a rounded terminus bearing a ventrallylocated mucro.

Second-stage juvenile:

Stylet 16.4 um long with prominent rounded knobs .
Tail tapering to a finely pointed terminus with a finger-like projection.

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

Distribution:

Described from a tidal salt marsh in France parasitizing sea purslane (Atriplex portulacoides).

Hosts:

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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Management:

Host Plant Resistance, Non-hosts and Crop Rotation alternatives:

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Ashrafi. S., Mugniery D., van Heese E.Y., van Aelst A.C., Helder J., Karssen G. 2012. Description of Meloidoderita salina sp. n. (Nematoda, Sphaeronematidae) from a micro-tidal salt marsh at Mont-Saint-Michel Bay in France. Zookeys 249:1-26.