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Classification:

Enoplea

  Enoplia
        Enoplida

            Enoplina

                Enoploidea

                    Enoplidae (or Tripyloididae)

Gairleanema anageremilae  Warwick & Platt, 1973

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Morphology and Anatomy:

• Cuticle with rather indistinct transverse striation.
• Mouth surrounded by three high lips each with a pair of labial setae which have bulbous swelling about hmid-length. Ten cephalic setae; six longer and four shorter. A few short  setae scattered on the anterior cervical region.
• Caudal setae and two subventral term inal setae present, but other somatic setation apparently lacking.
• Cephalic capsule weakly developed.
• Buccal cavity with a heavily cuticularized dorsal onchium pierced by a duct which leads into the esophageal musculature. Two subventral teeth with rounded tips.
• Amphids  just behind lateral cephalic setae, rather indistinct
• Esophagus cylindrical, 22-25 um wide at its base. Nerve ring 144-150 um from anterior.
• Tail 3.0-4.8 cbd long, posterior half cylindrical.

	Male: Spicules 1.4 cbdlong, equal, L-shaped, cephalate proxim ally and with broad ventral alae. Gubernaculum paired, 21 uun long, with hooked dorsal apophyses. A ventral precloacal seta and  a small ventral papilla in front of the cloaca and two large rounded mammilate protuberances in front of it.  Female: Ref: Warwick and Platt, 1973
Gairleanema anagremilae A: Male head; B: Spicules and gubernaculum; C: Male tail. Drawings wrom Warwick and Platt, 1973

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Distribution:

Described from sandy sediments on beach at Firemore Bay, Loch Ewe, Scotland.

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Feeding:

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Management:

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References:

Warwick, R.M. and Platt, H.M. 1973. New and little known marine nematodes from a Scottish sandy beach.. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 14:135-158.

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Copyright 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: June 27, 2026.