Teratorhabditis		Contents		Rev 06/29/2023
		Classification		Biology and Ecology
		Morphology and Anatomy		Life Cycle
Return to Teratorhabditis Menu				Ecosystem Functions and Services
		Distribution		Management
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Classification:

Chromadorea

  Rhabditia

    Rhabditida

      Rhabditoidea

        Rhabditidae

  Synonyms:

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Morphology and Anatomy:

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Distribution:

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Feeding:

  Bacterial feeders.

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Biology and Ecology:

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Life Cycle:

Under adverse conditions, including resource limitation, the nematode may develop into a dauer juvenitle survival stage with an extra cuticular sheath. Timper and Brodie (1995) showed that while adults and non-dauer juveniles became infected by the nematode-parasitic fungus, Hirsutella rhossiliensis, the sheath provided protection from infection for dauer juveniles.  Although fungal conidia adhered to the sheath, the fungus appeared to be incapable of penetrating the two layers of cuticle and the juveniles did not become infected

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References:

Andrassy, I. 1983.. A taxonomic review of the suborder Rhabditina (Nematoda Secernentia). Orstom, Paris, 244 pp.

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

Sudhaus, W. and D. Fitch. 2001. Comparative Studies on the Phylogeny and Systematics of the Rhabditidae (Nematoda). J. Nematology 33:1-70.

Timper, P. and Brodie, B.B. 1995. Interaction of the microbivorous nematode Teratorhabditis dentifera and the nematode-pathogenic fungus Hirsutella rhossiliensis. Biological Control 5:629-635.

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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Revised: June 29, 2023.

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