Pseudocella

 

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Classification:

Enoplea
  Enoplia
        Enoplida
            Ironina
                Ironoidea
                     Leptosomatidae
Thoracostomatinae

Pseudocella  Filipjev, 1927

Type species of the genus: Pseudocella trichodes (Leucart, 1849) Filipjev, 1927

    Synonyms:

Hemipsilus trichodes Leucart, 1849

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Morphology and Anatomy:

 

Male:

  • Spicula often asymmetrical but uniformly curved,
  • Gubemacula with paired apophyses directed posteriorly at right angles to the spicula.

Ref: Hope, 1967

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Distribution:

Free-living marine nematodes. Reported from the meiobenthos of Russian oceans (Platonova and Galtsova, 1976)

 

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Pseudocella

 

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Life Cycle:

 
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Management:

 
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References:

Filipjev, I.N. 1927. Les nematodes libres des mers septentrionales apartenant a la famille des Enoplidae. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 91(6): 1-126.

Hope, W.D.  1967. A review of the genus Pseudocella Filpjev, 1927 (Nematoda: Leptosomatidae) with a description of Pseudocella triaulolaimus n.sp. Proc. Helminthol. Soc. Wash 34: 6-12.

Platonova, T.A., 1976. Lower Enoplida (free-living marine nematodes) of the seas of the USSR (in Russian). Issledovaniya Fauny Morei (Nematody i ikh rol v meiobentose) 15:3-164.

Platonova, T.A. and Galtsova, V.V. 1976. Nematodes and their Role in the Meiobenthos. Studies on Marine Fauna Vol XV(XXIII) Academy of Sciences USSR, Nauka, Leningrad,  Translated 1985, Smithsonian Institute.

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