Propanagrolaimus filiformis

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Morphology and Anatomy Life Cycle
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Classification:

      Chromadorea
       Rhabditida
         Rhabditia
          Panagrolaimidae

Panagrolaiminae

Panagrolaimus filiformis (de Man, 1880) Andrassy, 2005

Type species of the genus

Transferred to genus Propanagrolaimus by Andrassy, 2005

Synonyms:

Cephalobus filiformis de Man, 1880

Eucephalobus filiformis (de Man, 1880) Schneider, 1939

Hetercephalobus filiformis (de Man, 1880) Andrassy, 1957

Panagrolaimus thienemanni Hirschmann, 1952

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Morphology and Anatomy:

  • Body very slender
  • Cuticle practically smooth
  • Short cylindrical stoma
  • Head not offset, lips low
  • Esophagus with long slender tapering corpus, slensder isthmus. 
  • Tail elongate conoid..  
  • Rapidly moving, very active nematodes.

 

  • Female monovarial, prodelphic
  • Postuterine sac < 1 vulval body width
  • Oviparous-viviparous
  • Male with long spicules

 

Ref Andrassy, 2005

 

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

 

 Propanagrolaimus filiformis:
A: Female whole body; B: anterior; C: Pharyngeal region
From Khan et al., 2012

 

 
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Distribution:

Freshwater aquatic nematodes; samples collected from the bank of a drain in India also contained the nematode (Khan et al., 2012).

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Feeding:

Active bacterial feeder.

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Biology and Ecology:

Very active, fast-moving nematodes.

 

 

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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

Bacterially-mediated decomposition of organic matter; nitrogen mineralization.

 

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Management:

 

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References:

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

Khan, R. Hussain, A., Tahseen, Q. 2012.Descriptions of one new and two known species of Panagrolaimoidea (Nematoda) from India. J. Natural History 46:867-864.

 

 

 
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Revised: January 11, 2022 .