Baldwinema ilamense

 

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Classification:

       Chromadorea
        Rhabditida
         Rhabditia
          Panagrolaimidae

Panagrolaiminae


Baldwinema ilamense
Atighi, Pourjam, Bert, Pedram, Ghaemi, Panahandeh, 2015
 
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Morphology and Anatomy:

 

Slender body, cuticle very finely striated.
Esophagus with narrow procorpus, muscilar metacorpus with prominent valve, slender isthmus and pyriform glandular, not valved postcorpus that does not overlap intestine.
Well-developed cardia between esophagus and intestine.
Excretory pore level with posterior end of isthmus.
Tail elongate, filiform in both sexes.


Female:
Monovarial, prodelphic with ovary reflexed and extending well posterior to vulva.

Short post-uterine sac.
Spermatheca not offset from uterus.


Male:
Monorchic
Spiculessmall, slender, paired, separate.
Gubernaculum curved.
Papillae in cloacal region and on tail have arrangement of diagnostic value.

Ref. Atighi et al. (2015)

   
   
   

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Distribution:

Recorded from bark samples of Ficus sp. in Iran.

 

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Feeding:

 
 
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References:

Atighi, M.R., Pourjam, E., Bert, W., Pedram, M., Ghaemi, R., Panahandeh, Y. 2015. An aberrant nematode, Baldwinema n. gen.(Nematoda: Panagrolaimomorpha: Panagrolaimidae),from Iran with description of three new species. Nematology 17:877-896

 

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Revised: January 24, 2020 .