Cylindrolaimus

  

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Rev: 07/26/2022

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Classification:

Chromadorea
  Chromadoria
       Araeolaimida
Araeolaimoidea
Diplopeltidae
        Cylindrolaimus De Man 1880
 
      

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Morphology and Anatomy:

  • Cuticle striated.
  • Amphids a unispiral.
  • Buccal cavity long and tubular, always terminal.
  • Tail conical with spinneret.

Females:

  • Amphidelphis, ovaries outstretched with the anterior gonad usually to the right
    side of intestine and posterior to the left.

     

  Ref: Fonseca and Bezerra, 2013
 
Anlterior of female (left) and posterior of male (right) of Cylindrolaimus scleris.
Drawings from Fonseca and Bezerra, 2013

Males:  

  • Testis single outstretched.
  • One precloacal supplement usually present.


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References:

Andrássy, I. 2005.  Free-living Nematodes of Hungary, Vol. I. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest.

Fonseca, G. and Bezerra, T.N. 2013. Order Araeolaimida De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1933. In Schmidt-Rhaesa (Ed). Handbook of Zoology. De Gruyter. DOI:10.1515/9783110274257.467

 

Copyright  1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: July 26, 2022.