Meyersia

  

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Classification:
Enoplea
     Enoplia
        Enoplida
Oncholaimina
              Oncholaimoidea
                    Oncholaimidae
Adoncholaiminae

Meyersia Hopper, 1967

Type species of the genus: Meyersia major Hopper, 1967

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Morphology and Anatomy:

 

  
   

General Characteriistics of Genus:

  • Buccal cavity large with two equal subventral teeth and a smaller dorsal tooth
  • Amphidial fovea pocket-like
  • Marine.

Female:

  • Didelphic, amphidelphic, ovaries reflexed
  • Demanian system symmetrical. The main duct runs parallel to the uterus and is anteriorly and posteriorly connected with the intestine and with both gonads. Two osmosia and two uvettes, terminal pore in region of vulva

Male:

  • Diorchic, testes outstretched
  • Spicules short
  • Gubernaculum present.
  • Precloacal pores present

Ref: Smol et al., 2014; Huang and Guo, 2022
Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:
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Distribution:

Free-living marine  nematodes. Reported from subtidal muddy sediment.

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Economic Importance:

 

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Meyersia

 

   

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Life Cycle:

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Damage:

 

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References:

Huang, Y. and Guo, Y. 2022. Free-living Marine Nematodes from the East China Sea, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3836-7_10

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: August 28, 2026.