Platycoma

 

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Classification:

Enoplea
  Enoplia
        Enoplida
            Ironina
                Ironoidea
                     Leptosomatidae
Platycominae

Platycoma  Cobb, 1894

Type species of the genus: Platycoma cephalata Cobb, 1894

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Male:

  • Amphids in males associated with two stout flat setae on posterior edge.
  • Precloacal supplements present

Ref: Shimada and Kakui, 2020; Smol et al., 2014

Female:

  • Didelphic amphidelphic

 
 
Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:
   


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Distribution:

Free-living marine nematodes.

 

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Platycoma

 

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Biology and Ecology:

 

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Life Cycle:

 
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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

 

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Management:

 
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References:

Cobb, N. A. 1894. Tricoma and other new nematode genera. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 2nd Series 8: 389-421.

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

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.

Shimada, D. and Kakui, K. 2020. A new species of free-living marine nematode, Proplatycoma tsukubae sp. nov. (Enoplida: Leptosomatidae), from Japan. Species Diversity 25: 205-211

Smol, N., Muthumbi, A., Sharma, J. 2014. Order Enoplida, 7.3. In Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (ed) Handbook of Zoology. De Gruyter, Berlin

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Revised by Howard Ferris.
Revised: August 24, 2026.