Plectonchus Fuchs, 1930

Type species of the genus: Plectonchus cunicularii Fuchs, 1930

Note: Abolafia et al. (2016) transferred Plectonchus hunti Stock, De Ley, De Ley, Mundo-Ocampo, Baldwin & Nadler, 2002 to the genus Panagrobelus Thorne, 1939, based on morphological and molecular data (Ghaemi et al, 2025).

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Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Plectonchus

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References:

Ghaemi, R., Pourjam, E., Pedram, M., Alvarez-Ortega, S., Abolafia, J., Atighi, M.R. 2025. Redescription and revalidation of Plectonchus zondagi (Dale, 1967) Abolafia, Alizadeh & Khakvar, 2016 (Rhabditida, Brevibuccidae) from Iran with notes on taxonomic position of the genus. Nematology 27:583-594.

Stock, S.P., DeLey, P., DeLey, I., Mundo-Ocampo, M., Baldwin, J.G., and Nadler, S.A. 2002. Nematology 4:403-419.

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