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Classification:

Enoplea

  Enoplia

        Triplonchida

            Bastianiidae

                   

Bastiania  de Man, 1876

   Type species of the genus: Bastiania gracilis  de Man, 1876

 Synonyms:

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Morphology and Anatomy:

• Usually with six outer labial and four cephalic setae arranged in a single or two separate circles.
• Buccal cavity almost absent
• Amphid is spiral or oval. Female reproductive systems are amphidelphic.  The tail is subcylindrical to elongate and conical, usually with a small terminal mucron. Caudal glands and a terminal spinneret are absent (Andr�ssy, 1991, 2005; Holovachov and De Ley, 2006).

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Distribution:

Soil or freshwater.

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Feeding:

Bacterial feesding nematodes.

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Life Cycle:

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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

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Management:

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References:

Andrassy, I. 1991. The free-living nematode fauna of the B�torliget Nature Reserves. In: Mahunka, S. (Ed.). The B�torliget Nature Reserve � after forty years. Budapest, Hungary, Hungarian Natural History Museum, pp. 129-197.

 Andrassy, I. 2005. Free-living nematodes of Hungary I (Nematoda errantia). In: Pedozoologica Hungarica No. 3 (Series Editors: Czusdi, C. & Mahunka, S.). Budapest, Hungary, Hungarian Natural History Museum and Systematic Zoology Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, pp. 120-124

Holovachov, O. and De Ley, P. 2006. Appendix. Order Mermithida and families incertae sedis (Bastianiidae and Rhabdolaimidae). In: Eyualem-Abebe, Andrassy, I. & Traunspurger, W. (Eds). Freshwater nematodes: ecology and taxonomy. Wallingford, UK, CAB International, pp. 722-735. DOI: 10.1079/9780851990095.0722

Holovachov, O., A Shoshin. 2014,  7.4 Order Triplonchida Cobb, 1919,  Handbook of Zoology. Gastrotricha

Liu, M.N., Xu, Y.M., Zhao, Z.Q., Wang, J.M. 2021. Morphological and molecular characteristics of Bastiania sinensis sp. n., Tripyla aquatica Brzeski & Winiszewska-Slipinska, 1993 � and T. setifera B�tschli, 1873 (Nematoda: Triplonchida) from Shanxi Province, North China. Nematology 23:987-1009.

Copyright 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: August 10, 2023.