Metoncholaimoides

  

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Classification:
Enoplea
     Enoplia
        Enoplida
Oncholaimina
              Oncholaimoidea
                    Oncholaimidae
Adoncholaiminae

Metoncholaimoides Wieser, 1953

Type species of the genus: Metoncholaimoides squakus Wieser, 1953

Synonyms:

 

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Morphology and Anatomy:

 

  
   

General Characteriistics of Genus:

  • Body strongly attenuating anteriorly. Anterior sensilla indistinct.
  • Amphids positioned far anteriorly.
  • Buccal cavity with right ventrosublateral tooth largest. 
  • Marine.

Female:

  • Didelphic, amphidelphic,
  • Demanian system well-developed with uvette and moniliform terminal duct and pore.

Male:

  • Spicules very long
    Gubernaculum absent.

Ref: Smol et al., 2014
Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:
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Distribution:

Free-living marine  nematodes.

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Metoncholaimoides

 

   

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Life Cycle:

For Ecophysiological Parameters for this genus, click 
 
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Damage:

 

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References:

Smol, N., Muthumbi, A., Sharma, J. 2014. Order Enoplida, 7.3. In Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (ed) Handbook of Zoology. De Gruyter, Berlin

 

 

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Revised by Howard Ferris.
Revised: August 24, 2026.