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Classification:

Chromadorea

Rhabditia
 Rhabditida

      Rhabditoidea

        Rhabditidae

  Synonyms:

Quercorhabditis (Shah, Hussain & Vaid, 2013) Abolafia, 2023

Rhabditis (Diploscapteroides Rahm, 19280 Sudhaus, 1976

Cheilorhabditis Timm, 1959

Colporhabditis Andrassy, 1976

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Morphology and Anatomy:

• Lip region wider than the adjacent part of body
• Stoma with well-developed, refringent and anteriorly curved cheilorhabdia
• Pharynx with swollen metacorpus and isthmus as long as procorpus,

Female:

• Didelphic,
• Tail conoid or cupola-shaped

Male:

• Bursa leptoderan, reduced, anteriorly open, with ten pairs of bursal papillae (genital papillae and phasmids, 3/4+2+ph).

Ref: Abolafia, 2023

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Distribution:

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Feeding:

  Bacterial feeders.

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References:

Abolafia, A. 2023. A proposal to synonymize Loffienema with Haematozoon, Quercorhabditis with Diploscapteroides, and Stegorhabditis with Stomachorhabditis (Nematoda, Rhabditida, Rhabditomorpha), including keys to species identification. Zootaxa 5258:231-238.

Andrassy, I. 2005. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary, I (Nematoda errantia). Pedozoologica Hungarica 3. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary. 518p.

Ghaemi, R., Ebrahim Pourjam, Sergio Álvarez-Ortega, Majid Pedram and Mohammad Reza Atighi. 2015. A curious nematode, Diploscapteroides persicusn. sp. (Nematoda: Rhabditida: Rhabditomorpha), from Iran with a note on the status of the male genital papillae. Nematology 17:1045-1056.

Sudhaus, W. 2023. An update of the catalogue of paraphyletic ‘Rhabditidae’ (Nematoda) after eleven years. Soil Organisms 95: 95-116

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