Litinium

  

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Classification:

Enoplea
  Enoplia
        Enoplida
            Ironina
                Ironoidea
                    Oxystominidae
Oxystomatinae

Litinium  Cobb, 1920

Type species Litinium aequale Cobb, 1920

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Morphology and Anatomy:

In most case, species have been described from very few specimens.

  • Anterior sensilla in 3 circles surrounding stomal aperture: six indistinct labial papillae, six outer labial setae, four cephalic setae.
  • No buccal cavity.
  • Amphids oval- to horseshoe-shaped in males, circular to heart-shaped in females.
  • Marine

Ref:  Quang et al., 2008; Smol et al., 2014

Females:

  • Monodelphic-opisthodelphic
  • Circular to heart-shaped iamphid foveae.

 
 
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Distribution:

Free-living marine nematodes described from intertidal sediment..

 

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Litinium

 

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Life Cycle:

 
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References:

Andrassy, I. 2007. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary II.  Hungarian Natural History Museum. 496pp.

Quang Ngo Xuan, Smol N., Vanreusel A, Nguyen Vu Thanh, Chau Nguyen Ngoc. 2008.One new and two unknown species of free-living marine nematodes from Cangio mangrove forest, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. Tap Chi Simh Hoc 30:1-11.

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 25, 2026.