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Classification:

Chromadorea

  Rhabditia

   Rhabditida

      Rhabditoidea

        Rhabditidae

 

        Haematozoon Leisering, 1865
Type species of the genus: Haematozoon subulatum Leisering, 1865

              Synonyms

   Loffiienema (Shah, Allie, Vaid & Handoo, 2018) Abolafia, 2023 

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Morphology and Anatomy:

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  Females:

  • Didelphic-amphidelphic

  • Tail conoid-elongate

Male:

  • Tail leptoderan with anteriorly open bursa with reduced velum and spaced bursal papillae

  • One genital papillae very anterior to bursa (1+3/2+2+2)

  • Spicules with rounded manubrium, very narrow calamus and fusiform lamina.

Ref: Abolafia, 2023

 
 

 




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Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Haematozoon

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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.

 

Shah, A. A., K. A. Allie, S. Vaid & Z. A. Handoo 2018.: Description of Loffienema dhanoriensis gen. n., sp. n. (Nematoda: Rhabditidae) from Jammu and Kashmir State, India. Zootaxa 4402: 189-194

 

Sudhaus, W. 1976. Nomenklatorische bemerkungen uber arten und gattungen der unterfamilie Rhabditinae sensu lato (Rhabditidae: Nematoda). Nematologica 22:49-61.

 

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

 

Yeates, G.W., T. Bongers, R. G. M. De Goede, D. W. Freckman, and S. S. Georgieva. 1993. Feeding habits in soil nematode families and genera—An outline for soil ecologists. Journal of Nematology 25:315-331

 

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