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Chromadorea Rhabditida Rhabditia Tylenchina
Panagrolaimoidea Panagrolaimidae
Panagrolaiminae
Panagrobelus
Note: Abolafia et al. (2016) transferred Plectonchus hunti Stock, De Ley, De Ley, Mundo-Ocampo, Baldwin & Nadler, 2002 to the genus Panagrobelus Thorne, 1939, based on morphological and molecular data (Ghaemi et al, 2025).
Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Panagrobelus
Abolafia, J., Alizadeh, M. and Khakvar, R. 2016. Description of Panagrellus ulmi sp. n. (Rhabditida, Panagrolaimidae) from Iran, and comments on the species of the genus and its relatives. Zootaxa 4162, 245-267. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa. 4162.2.3
Ghaemi, R., Pourjam, E., Pedram, M., Alvarez-Ortega, S., Abolafia, J., Atighi, M.R. 2025. Redescription and revalidation of Plectonchus zondagi (Dale, 1967) Abolafia, Alizadeh & Khakvar, 2016 (Rhabditida, Brevibuccidae) from Iran with notes on taxonomic position of the genus. Nematology 27:583-594.
Thorne, G. 1939. A monograph of the nematodes of the superfamily Dorylaimoidea. Capita Zool. 8: 1-263.