Panagrolaimus		Contents		Rev 03/02/2021
		Classification		Biology and Ecology
		Morphology and Anatomy		Life Cycle
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		Distribution		Management
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Classification:

 Chromadorea
         Rhabditida
         Rhabditia
          Panagrolaimidae

Panagrolaiminae

Panagrolaimus

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Photographs indicating characteristics of the genus are P. margarethe

Short cylindrical stoma.  Long tapering corpus with no offset metacorpus.  Valve in postcorpus.  Female monovarial, prodelphic, ovary reflexed, spermatheca axial or absent. Rapidly moving, very active nematodes.
Tail conical but asymmetrical, shorter on ventral side.
	Panagrolaimus male
	Male spicules with short terminal bifurcation.
	No caudal alae.
Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:

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Distribution:

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Feeding:

Bacterial feeders (Yeates et al., 1993; Moens and Vincx, 1997).

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Life Cycle:

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Management:

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References:

Andrassy, I. 2005. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary I. Hungarian Natural History Museum 518p.

Moens, Y. and Vincx, M. 1997. Observations on the feeding ecology of estuarine nematodes. Journal of the Marine Biology Assoc. U.K. 77:211-227.

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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Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: March 02, 2021 .