Rev 03/02/2021
Chromadorea Rhabditida Rhabditia Panagrolaimidae
Panagrolaiminae
Panagrolaimus detritophagus Fuchs, 1930
Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:
Common in agricultural soils around Davis, California. Also reported from South America and Europe.
Active bacterial feeders (Yeates et al., 1993).
Ecophysiological Parameters:
Bacterially-mediated decomposition of organic matter; nitrogen mineralization.
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.
Bongers, T. and H. Ferris. 1999. Nematode community structure as a bioindicator in environmental monitoring. Trends in Evolution and Ecology 14:224-228.
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