Platycomopsis

 

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Classification:

Enoplea
  Enoplia
        Enoplida
            Ironina
                Ironoidea
                     Leptosomatidae
Platycominae

Platycomopsis  Ditlevsen, 1926

Type species of the genus: Platycomopsis cobbi Ditlevsen, 1926

    Synonyms:

Dactylonema Filijev, 1927

Parabarbonema Inglis, 1964

Pilosinema Platonova, 1976

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Male:

  • Amphid aperture in males without setae or flap on posterior edge
  • Gubernaculum without apophyses,
  • Precloacal ventromedian supplements papilliform

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

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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 Platycomopsis

 

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Life Cycle:

 
For Ecophysiological Parameters for this genus, click 

 

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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 Platycomopsis Filpjev, 1927 (Nematoda: Leptosomatidae) with a description of Pseufocella 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.

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: June 20, 2026.