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Classification:

Chromadorea

  Chromadoria

   Monhysterida

Monhysterina

Sphaerolaimoidea

                 Xyalidae

       Spiramphinema Wieser, 1956

Type species of the genus:   Spiramphinema convolutum Wieser, 1956

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Morphology and Anatomy:

• Cephalic setae (6+4) (characteristic of the family Xyalidae)
• Amphid spiral

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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 Spiramphinema

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Life Cycle:

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Management:

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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

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

Wieser, W. 1956. Free-living marine nematodes III. Axonolaimoidea and Monhysteroidea, Acta Univ Lund (N.F.2), 52(13):1-115

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Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: August 04, 2025.