Rev 11/19/2024
Chromadorea
Rhabditia
Rhabditida
Tylenchina
Strongyloidoidea
Alloionematidae
Synonym
Leptodera Schneider, 1866
Based on A. luofuensis:
Ref: Huanh et al., 2016
Male:
Female:
Bacterivorous; closely associated with slugs and snails
The type species, A. appendiculatuim, has an alternation of two different saprophytic generations distinguished mainly by their size and tail shape (Schneider, 1859). Mengert (1953) referred to the two forma as Grossform and Kleinform
Holovachov, O., Bostrom, S., De Ley, I.T., McDonnell, R.J., Alvarado, S., Paine, T.D., De Ley, P. 2016. Alloionema similis n. sp., a genetically divergent sibling species of A. appendiculatum Schneider, 1859 (Rhabditida: Alloionematidae) from invasive slugs in California, USA. Syst. Parasitol. 93:877-898.
Huanh, R-E., Li, R., Zhao, Z. 2016. Discovery of a free-living nematode phylogenetically related to vertebrate parasites of the genus Strongyloides (Nematoda: Strongyloidoidea): morphological, anatomical and molecular characterisation. Invert. Systematics 30:387-397.
Mengert, H. 1953.. Nematoden und Schnecken. Zeitschrift fur Morphologie und Okologie der Tiere, 41:311-349.
Nermat, J., Vladimir Puza and Zdenek Mracek.. 2016. Neoalloionema indicum n. sp. (Nematoda: Alloionematidae), a new alloionematid from India. Nematology 16:949-962.
Schneider, A.F. 1859. Uber eine Nematodenlarva and gewisse Verschiedenheiten in den Geschlechtsorganen der Nematoden. Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftlichen Zoologie 10, 176-178.
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