Micoletzkyia

 

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Classification:

Enoplea
  Enoplia
        Enoplida
            Enoplina
                Enoploidea
                    Phanodermatidae
Crenopharynginae

Micoletzkyia  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.
Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:


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Distribution:

Free-living marine nematodes,

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Feeding:

 

 

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Life Cycle:

 
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Management:

 
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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.

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.

 

 

Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: February 23, 2024.