Siconema

  

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Classification:

Rhabditida
       Tylenchina
        Drilonematoidea
             Ungellidae
Synoecneminae

          Siconema Timm, 1966

Type species of the genus:

Synonyms:

 

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Genus characterized by having a pair of cephalic hooks  

Per description of Siconema hirsutum:

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Female:

Male:

Ref: Ivanova et al., 2012

 
Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:
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Distribution:

The most species-rich genus of the Superfamily Drilonematoidea.  .Generally described from tropical and subtropical eathworms.

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Feeding:

 Parasites of the  coelomic cavities of terrestrial oligochaetes of the superfamily Megascolicoidea. It predominates in pheretimoid oligochaetes native to South–East Asia and Australasia. Several pheretimoid earthworm species (Amynthas leucocircus, A. lignophilus, A. mucrorimus)  are particularly susceptible to invasion of drilonematids and are hosts to several genera and families of nematode parasites (Spiridonov & Ivanova 2005)

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Hosts:

 Earthworms

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Life Cycle:

Earthworms are the definitive and single hosts.

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Damage:

 

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References:

 Ivanova, E.S., Pham Van Luc, Spiridinov, S.E. 2012. Two new species of Siconema (Drilonematoidea: Ungellidae) parasitic in earthworms in Vietnam, and systematic relationships as inferred from ribosomal sequence data. Zootaxa 3344: 47-59.

 

 

 

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Copyright 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: February 10, 2024.