Rev 01/20/2020
Chromadorea
Rhabditia
Rhabditida
Tylenchina
Cephaloboidea
Cephalobidae
Penjatinema natalense Heyns & Swart, 1998
Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:
Bacterial feeding
Ecophysiological Parameters:
Heyns, J. & Swart, A. 1998. On the morphology of Penjatinema natalense n. gen., n. sp., with proposal of a new subfamily, Penjatinematinae (Rhabditida: Cephalobidae). Nematologica, 44: 381-390.
Holovachov, O., Bostrom, S., Tandigan De Ley, I., Nadler, S.A., De Ley, P. 2009. Description of Penjatinema novaezeelandiae sp. n. (Rhabditida: Cephalobidae) from New Zealand – a second species of a rare genus. J. Nematode Morphol. Syst. 12:7-18.
Nadler, S.A., DeLey, P.,Mundo-Ocampo, M., Smythe, A.B.,Stock, S.P., Bumbarger, D., Adams, B.J., Tandingan De Ley, I., Holovachov, O., Baldwin, J.G. 2006. Phylogeny of Cephalobina (Nematoda): Molecular evidence for recurrent evolution of probolae and incongruence with traditional classifications. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 40: 696-711.