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Classification:

Chromadorea

  Chromadoria

   Desmodorida

Desmodorina

             Desmodoroidea

                Draconematidae

      Draconematinae

        Dracograllus Allen & Noffsinger, 1978

     

Type species: Dracograllus cobbi Allen & Noffsinger, 1978

    Synonyms:
     

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Morphology and Anatomy:

• Swollen anterior body region 18-26% of total body length.
• Head capsule present
• Body cuticle smooth or with lateral field
• Usually eight cephalic adhesion tubes  located on cephalic capsule, rarely 10 to 15.
• Amphids lateral, usually loop-shaped, with branches usually of unequal length, rarely spiral.
• Buccal cavity narrow, without teeth
• Pharynx cylindrical dumbbell-shaped end bulb with lumen wall not thickened.
• Precloacal copulatory thorns usually absent.
• Posterior adhesion tubes usually all anterior to cloacal opening; usually extending posterior to anus in females.
• Paravulval setae may be present

Ref: Leduc and Zhao, 2016; Rho et al., 2011; Tchesunov, 2013

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Distribution:

Free-living marine nematodes

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Dracograllus

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References:

Allen, M.W., Noffsinger, E.M. 1978. A revision of the marine nematodes of the superfamily Draconematoidea Filipjev, 1918 (Nematoda: Drac,onematina). Univ Calif Pubs Zool 109: 1-133

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Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: August 10, 2026.