Hopperia

  

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Classification:

Chromadorea
  Chromadoria
   Chromadorida
Comesomatoidea
               Comesomatidae
    Dorylaimopsinae
       Hopperia Vitiello, 1969

Type species of the genus:  Hopperia massiliensis Vitiello, 1969

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Morphology and Anatomy:

General chracteristics of the genus:

Ref: Platt and Warwick, 1988; Sun et al., 2018\).

 
 

 

Females:

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Males:  
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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Hopperia

Free-living marine nematodes. The three large teeth suggest omnivory as well as epistrate feeding.

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Life Cycle:

 
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References:

Platt, H.M., Warwick, R.M. 1988. Free living marine nematodes: Part II. British Chromadoridas. In: Brill E J, Backhuys Dr W, eds. Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series), 38. Published for the Linnean Society of London and the Estuarine and Brackish-water Sciences Association. Avon, Great Britain: Bath Press, pp.502

Sun, Y., Huang, M., Huang, Y. 2018. Two new species of free-living nematodes from the East China Sea. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 37(10): 148-151, doi: 10.1007/s13131-018-1317-y9.
 

Copyright 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: April 18, 2026.