Rev: 11/18/2025
The monotypic (as of 2025) genus
Comes close to Haliplectus but the type species is described from a non-coastal or marine environment and having an angular offset cephalic region, the female being monodelpic-prodelphic, and the absence of spinneret at tail tip.
Cephalic region angular and offset, without labial or cephalic setae; cephalic sensilla papilliform
Stoma long, tubular, without teeth or denticles
Cuticle strongly annulated lacking ornamentation such as markings, spines and pores
Amphids circular
No spinneret at tail tip.
Female:
Male:
Ref: Siddiqi, 2012
Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:
Free-living nematodes. Type species described from "bush soil" in Nigeria, a non-marine or swampy environment
Bacterivore
Ecophysiological Parameters:
Holovachov, O. 2014. 7.16 Order Plectida Gadea, 1973. In: Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.). Handbook of zoology. Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia, Gnathifera. Volume 2: Nematoda. Berlin, Germany, De Gruyter, pp. 487-535.
Siddiqi, M.R. 2012. Descriptions of Geohaliplectus andrassyi gen. n., sp. n. Haliplectus bruneiensis sp. n. (Nematoda: Haliplectidae). International Journal of Nematology 22:41-46.