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Classification:

Chromadorea

  Chromadoria

       Araeolaimida

Araeolaimoidea

Axonolaimidae

        Axonolaimus De Man, 1889

 

 Type species of the genus:  Axonolaimus filiformia De Man, 1889

    Synonyms:
     

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Morphology and Anatomy:

• Buccal cavity long, Amphid is wide and long, with
  the two arms lying parallel and contiguous.
• Esophagus broadens towards the base, but without a definite bulb.
• Tail is three quarters conical with the remainder more or less cylindrical. 
• Body length <1 mm

Ref: Annpurna et al., 2012

Axonolaimus paraponticus 24: female head; 25: amphids; 26: spicules and gubernaculum; 27: msle tsail; 28: female tail. Drawings form Hopper (1963)

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Distribution:

Reported from sublittoral mud. at Exe estuary, southwest England (intertidal low-salinity mud); Isles of Scilly (intertidal sand), Northumberland coast, northeastEngland (Sub littoral mud).Also ftom Divi point (500 m), northeast coast of India (Annapurna et al., 2012).

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Axonolaimus

Free-living marine nematodes.

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References:

Annapurna, C., Vijaya Bhanu, C., Srinivasa Rao, M., Sivalakshmi, M.V., Lilly M. .Cooper, G., Rao, Y.K. 2012. Free-living nematodes along the continental slope off northeast coast of India. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. India, 54:52-60.

De Man, J.G. 1989. Especes et genres nouveaux de Nematodes libres de la mer et de la manche. Mem. Soc. Zool. Fr. 2:1-10

Hopper, B.E. 1963. Marine nematodes from the coastline of the Gulf of Mexicio.  Can. J. Zool. 41:841-863.

Warwick, R. M., H. M. Platt and P. J. Somerfield. 1998. Free-living marine nematodes. Part III: British Monhysterids. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) NO.53, Shrewsbury: Field Studies Council, 269 pp

Copyright  1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: January 12, 2026.