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Classification:

      Chromadorea
       Tylenchida
        Aphelenchina
         Aphelenchoidea
          Aphelenchoididae
           Aphelenchoidinae

            Anomyctus Allen, 1940

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Morphology and Anatomy:

  • Apparently rare genus.
  • Cuticle strongly striated.
  • Lip region offset; with shallow, sclerotized, saucer-like frontal disc.
  • Six small projections surround oral opening.
  • Stylet without basal knobs, 35 um long.
  • Tail of both sexes conical, with short terminal process.

Female:

  • Monodelphic, prodelphis, postuterine sac 1.5 body widths long.
  • Female tail conical to short terminal process.

Male:

  • Male similar to female in size and shape.
  • Testis with anterior flexure.
  • Spicules very large, paired, not fused, similar to those of Aphelenchoides.
  •  Male tail with 3 pairs of caudal papillae.
  • Caudal alae and gubernaculum absent.

Ref: Nickle, 1970

  
 
   
   

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References:

Nickle, W.R. 1970. A Taxonomic Review of the Genera of the Aphelenchoidea (Fuchs, 1937) Thorne, 1949 (Nematoda: Tylenchida) . J. Nematology 2:375-392.

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