Dolichorhabditis		Contents		Rev 12/21/2022
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		Morphology and Anatomy		Life Cycle
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Classification:

Chromadorea
  Rhabditia

    Rhabditida

      Rhabditoidea

        Rhabditidae

Rhabditinae

       

Dolichorhabditis Andrassy 1983

  Dolichorhabditis is  also considered a subgenus of the genus Oscheius. Species identification of the genus is very challenging since morphological characters are very similar. The genus Oscheius includes 42 valid species belonging to insectivora (28) and dolichura (14) groups (Tabassum et al., 2016). A detailed revision of the taxonomy of the genus is provided by Abolafia and Pena-Santiago (2019).

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Morphology and Anatomy:

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Distribution:

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Feeding:

  Many species belonging to the genus Dolichorhabditis are ectoparasites of insects

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References:

Abolafia, J., Pena-Santiago, R. 2019. Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Oscheius saproxylicus sp. n. (Rhabditida, Rhabditidae) From Decaying Wood in Spain, With New Insights into the Phylogeny of the Genus and a Revision of its Taxonomy. J. Nematology 51:  DOI: 10.21307/jofnem-2019-053.

 Tabassum, K.A., F. Shahina, K. Nasira and Y. I. Erum. 2016. Description of six new species of Oscheius Andrassy, 1976 (Nematoda: Rhabditida) from Pakistan with a key and diagnostic compendium to species of the genus. Pakistan Journal of Nematology 34:109-161.

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Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: December 21, 2022.