Neocamacolaimus

Neocamacolaimus	Contents	Rev: 09/22/2022
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Classification:

Chromadorea
Chromadoria
Plectida: Camacolaimoidea; Camacolaimidae

Neocamacolaimus Holovachov & Bostrom, 2014

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Females:

A. Parasitic juvenile of Neocamacolaimus parasiticus Holovochov and Bostrom, 2014 emerging from B. polychaete host Sphaerosyllis sp, Scale bar = 50um.
Photomicrograph from Ahmad et al., 2021

Males:

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

Marine nematodes usually described from coarse shell gravel depositis (Ahmad et al., 2021). The type species is an internal parasite of the benthic polychaete annelid, Sphaerosyllis sp collected near Bonden Island west of Sweden,

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Feeding:

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Life Cycle:

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References:

Ahmad, M., Adedidran, F., Holovachov, O. 2021. A draft transcriptome of a parasite Neocamacolaimus parasiticus (Camacolaimidae, Plectida). J. Nematology 53-e2021-40.

Holovachov, O. and Bostrom, S. 2004. Morphology and systematics of the superfamilies Leptolaimoidea Oerley, 1880 and Camacolaimoidea Micoletzky, 1924 (Nematoda: Plectida). J. Nematode Morphology and Systematics 7:1-49.

Holovachov, O. and Bostrom, S. 2014. Swedish Plectida (Nematoda). Part 6. Neocamacolaimus gen. n., sp. n. Zootaxa 3821:538-550

Tchesunov, A. V. 2009. Diversity and forms of evolution of the nematodes associated with marine benthic invertebrates. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, Estestvennye nauki 151:1-17.