Female: No cyst
stage.
Body globose, with prominent neck and terminal cone.
Cuticle thick, wavy; entire body annulated, except terminal
cone.
D-layer absent. No subcrystalline layer.
Vulva and anus situated on terminal cone which has a thickened
cuticle.
Phasmids not
observed.
Eggs retained in female body together with hatched second-stage
juveniles.
  
Rhizonemella sequoiae female, with eggs
retained, embedded in the vascular tissue of a redwood (Sequoia) root.
Photographs by Ignacio Cid del Prado Vera, April
2005; Dec. 2017.
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