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Classification:

Enoplea

  Enoplia
        Enoplida

            Ironina

                Ironoidea

                     Leptosomatidae

Platycominae

Pilosinema  Platonova, 1976

Type species of the genus: Pilosinema filiappendicatus (Micoletzky, 1930) Platonova, 1976

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Morphology and Anatomy:

• Amphids of males larger than of females.
• Cervical setae in transverse rows behind amphids, three rows in males and two in females.
• Tail cylindro-conical.

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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:

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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.

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.

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: March 17, 2025.