Proplatycoma

 

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Classification:

Enoplea
  Enoplia
        Enoplida
            Ironina
                Ironoidea
                     Leptosomatidae
Platycominae

Proplatycoma  Platonova, 1976

Type species of the genus: Proplatycoma sudafricana (Inglis, 1966) Platonova, 1976

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Morphology and Anatomy:

The genus Proplatycoma differs from all the other genera in subfamily Platycominae based on the amphidial apertures with an expanded posterior edge forming a flap-like structure in males and simple elliptical shape in females, in addition to the presence of a pair of accessory structures on ventrolateral side of each spicule and a pair of dorso-caudal apophyses of the gubernaculum. (Shimada and Kakui, 2020). I

 

Male:

  • amphidial apertures with an expanded posterior edge forming a flaplike structure
  • Spicula often asymmetrical but uniformly curved,
  • Gubemacula with paired apophyses directed dorso-caudally
  • A pair of accessory structures on ventrolateral side of each spicule

Ref: Shimada and Kakui

Females

  • amphidial apertures with simple elliptical shapes

 
 
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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 Proplatycoma

 

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Life Cycle:

 
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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 Proplatycoma 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.

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

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Revised: June 02, 2025.