Acrobeloides tricornis

Acrobeloides tricornis	Contents	Rev 01/13/2024
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Classification:

      Rhabditida
       Tylenchina
        Cephaloboidea

Cephalobidae

Acrobeloides tricornis (Thorne, 1925) Thorne, 1937

Morphology and Anatomy:

Body cylindrical, about 0.5 mm long
Cuticle annulated. Lateral field prominent with lateral incisures varying in number along body length:
Head region continuous with neck.
Lip region with triradiate symmetry with 6 + 4 papillae. Three pairs of asymmetrical lips; separated by U-shaped primary axils. Secondary axils shallow. Guarding process not seen. Three labial high and sharply-pointed probolae.
Stoma cephaloboid, length 2.1-3.5 times lip region diam. Cheilorhabdions distinct, oval-shaped and strongly cuticularised.
Pharyngeal corpus fusiform and swollen metacorpus. Isthmus narrower than corpus, distinctly demarcated from metacorpus. Basal bulb oval with well-developed valves. Cardia surrounded by intestinal tissue. Nerve ring located at anterior isthmus, excretory pore at posterior isthmus. .
Tail conoid, with truncated terminus. Phasmids located 41-59% of tail length.

Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:

Female:

Monodelphic-prodelphic.
Vulval lips not protruding. Vagina length about 0.3 times body diam.
Rectum length 0.7-1.8 times anal body diam

. Ref: Bhat et al., 2023

Distribution:

Reported from soils world wide, also in phoretic and other assocaitions with arthropods (see genus description)

Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

Important contributions of Acrobeloides spp. to soil nutrient cycling and mineralization of organic forms of nitrogen are well documented (Anderson et al., 1981; Ferris et al., 1995 1997)

Anderson, R.V., Coleman, D.C., Cole, C.V. & Elliott, E.T. 198). Effect of the nematodes Acrobeloides sp. and Mesodiplogaster lheritieri on substrate utilization and nitrogen and phosphorous mineralization in soil. Ecology 62:549-555/

Bhat, A.H., Loulou, A., Abolafia, J., Machado, R.A.R., Kallel, S. 2023. Comparative morphological and molecular analyses of Acrobeloides bodenheimeri and A. tricornis Cobb, 1924 (Rhabditida, Cephalobidae) from Tunisia. Nematology 25: 207-226

Ferris, H., R. C. Venette and S. S. Lau. 1997. Population energetics of bacterial-feeding nematodes: Carbon and Nitrogen budgets. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 29:1183-1194.

Ferris, H., R. C. Venette, H. R. van der Meulen and S. S. Lau. 1998. Nitrogen mineralization by bacterial-feeding nematodes: verification and measurement. Plant and Soil 203:159-171.

Thorne, G. 1925. The genus Acrobeles von Linstow, 1887. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 44:171-210.