Micoletzkyia

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Classification:

Enoplea
Enoplia Enoplida
Enoplina
Enoploidea
Phanodermatidae: Crenopharynginae

Micoletzkyia Ditlevsen, 1926

Type species of the genus: Micoletzkyia elegans Ditlevsen, 1926

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Pharyngeal capsule without outgrowths,
Cephalic capsule weakly developed or not observed (type I pharyngo-cephalic complex).
Head distinctly set off by a constriction.
Ocelli absent.
Tail conico-cylindrical in shape.

Male:

Spicules longer than 2.0 cloacal body diameters.
Precloacal supplement tubular (if present)

Ref: Zograf et al., 2015; Shimada and Kakuf, 2019.

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Distribution:

Free-living marine nematodes from muddy bottom sediments

Life Cycle:

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References:

Shimada, D., Kakuf, K. 2019. Two new and one known species of Phanodermatidae (Nematoda: Enoplida) from Sagami Bay, Japan. Zootaxa 4608:484-500.

Urkmez, D., Sezgin, M. 2016. Micoletzkyia longispicula Huang & Cheng, 2011 (Nematoda: Phanodermatidae) in Turkey: First record outside the type locality Ecologica Montenegrina 5:66-69.

Zograf, J.K., Trebukhova, Y.A., Pavlyuk, O.N. 2015. Description of new species of Micoletzkyia (Enoplida, Phanodermatidae) with key to genera of family Phanodermatidae and pictorial key to Phanodermopsis species. Zootaxa 4032:277-289.

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