Baldwinema golestanense

 

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Classification:

      Chromadorea

       Rhabditida
         Rhabditia
          Panagrolaimidae

Panagrolaiminae


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

 

Slender body, cuticle very finely striated.

Cephalic framework very weak.
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.

Postuterine sac long, sometimes containing sperm.
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 unidentified tree in Golestan province, Iran.

 

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Feeding:

Probably bacterivore.

 
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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 .