Rev: 11/19/2024
Type species of the genus: Diplolaimelloides altherri Meyl, 1954
Synonyms:
Members of the subfamily Diplolaimellinae of the Monhysteridae are characterized by a double buccal cavity at some point during their juvenile or adult stages, while those in the other subfamily, the Monhysterinae, have a single tapered buccal cavity.
The genus Diplolaimelloides was erected by Meyl (1954) for those Diplolaimella species in which the male has a genital bursa with fine genital papillae (Chen et al., 2023)..
Presence of a copulatory bursa in males is an important character distinguishing Diplolaimelloides. Diplolaimella clearly differs from Monhystrium, Tripylium, and Diplolaimelloides (in the same subfamily) by the absence of a male copulatory bursa and the presence of an apophysis on the gubernaculum (Shimada et al., 2022).
Several species of Diplolaimella and/or Diplolaimelloides are considered species inquirendae because a male has not beenj described and the presence or absence of a bursa or apophysis on the gubernaculum is unknown (Shimada et al., 2022)..
Females:
Ref: Shimada et al., 2022; Chen et al., 2023.
Males:
Free-living marine nematodes; intertidal areas, brackish water, mangrove swamps.
Bacterial and probably epistrate feeders. Often reported from sediment in muddy tidal flats.
Allgen, C. 1929.. Sudschwedische marine Nematoden. Goteborgs kungliga vetenskaps-och vitterhets-samhalles Handlingar. Femte Foljden Ser B 1(2): 1-40.
Chen, Y., Zhu, H., Guo, Y. 2023. A new species and a new record of free-living marine nematode of genus Diplolaimelloides (Monhysteridae) from Futian mangrove reservation in Shenzhen, China. Journal of Oceanology and Limnology 41: 314-326, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-021-1206-7
Meyl, A. H. 1954. Die fadenwurmer (Nematoden) einiger Salztellen sudöstlich von Braunscheweig. Abhandlungen der Braunschweigischen Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft 6: 84-106.
Pastor de Ward, C.T. and Lo Russo, V. 2009.. Distribution of Diplolaimella and Diplolaimelloides species from Patagonian lagoons and coastal waters (Nematoda: Monhysteridae), Chubut and Santa Cruz provinces (Argentina). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 89:711-718. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315409000198
Shimada, D., Komiya, T., Yoshiga, T. 2022. A new species of free-living marine nematode, Diplolaimella ariakensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Monhysteridae) from the Ariake Sea, Japan. Nematology 24:321-331.
Timm, R.W. 1967.. Some observations on the nematode genera Diplolaimella and Diplolaimelloides. Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences 3:114-125