Linhystera

  

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Classification:

Chromadorea
  Chromadoria
   Monhysterida
Monhysterina
Sphaerolaimoidea
                 Xyalidae
       Linhystera Juario, 1974

Type species of the genus:   Linhystera problematica Juario, 1974

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Morphology and Anatomy:

With general characteristics of family Xyalidae, and:

 

Females:

  •  Monodelphic, prodelphic

      Ref: Venekey et al., 2014; Huang and Guo, 2022


 

Males:  

  • Monorchic or diorchic: anterior testis on left and posterior testis on right side of the intestine
  • Gubernaculum with apophysis absent or present;

Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:
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Distribution:

Marine nematodes. Type species described from the sublittoral zone of the German Bight (North Sea) with additional observations from Chile. A second species was described from sublittoral areas of Argentina (Venekey et al., 2014).

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Linhystera

 

 
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Life Cycle:

 
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References:

Fonseca, G., Bezerra. T.N. 2013. Order Monhysterida. Filipjev, 1929. In: Schmidt-Rhaesa A (ed) Handbook of Zoology: Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia, Gnathifera, volume 2 Nematoda. De Gruyter, Berlin, pp 435-466

Huang, Y., Guo, Y. 2022. Order Monhysterida Filipjev, 1929. In: Free-living Marine Nematodes from the East China Sea. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3836-7_9

Pastor de Ward, C.T. 1985. Nematodes marinos de la Ria Deseado (Monhysteroidea, Xyalidae), Santa Cruz, Argentina.II, PHYSIS Secc A 43(105):113-130

Venekey, V., Gheller, P.F., Maria , T.F., Brustolin, M.C., Kandratavicius , N., Vieira , D.C., Brito, S., Souza, G.S., Fonseca, G. 2014. The state of the art of Xyalidae (Nematoda, Monhysterida) with reference to the Brazilian records. Marine Biodiversity DOI 10.1007/s12526-014-0226-3

 

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Revised: January 27, 2026.