Bathyodontus

 

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Classification:

Enoplea
        Mononchida
Batyyodontina
Cryptonchoidea
Bathyodontidae

Bathyodontus Fielding, 1950

The genus name possibly reflects the ventarl toot located deep in the stoma.

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Morphology and Anatomy:

The genus Bathyodontus is distinguished by the ventral tooth located at the base of the stome, and the axial terminal pore at the tail tip.  It resembles genus Oionchus in the cylin droid body and esophagus, and the axial terminal pore.
  • Body cylindrical from the middle of the neck to a short distance in front of the anus.
  • Lips amalgamated, practically continuous with the neck contour, bearing an inner circlet of six and an outer circlet of ten papillae.
  • Conspicuous, granular lateral cords are about 1/3 the body width except at the extremities.
  • Amphids small, cup shaped.
  • A single ventral tooth is located at the base of the cylindroid buccal cavity.
  • Five esophageal glands.
  • Cardia large, irregularly shaped.
  •  Tail hemispherical with a terminal an axial pore,which probably has a  a spinneret-like function.

Female:

  • Didelphic, amphidelphic, ovaries reflexed
  • Vulva a transverse slit

 

Bathyodontus cylindricus
A: female; B: female anterior; C: TS prorhabdion level; D: TS tooth level; E: TS anterior esophagus level; F: face view; G: female posterior, ventral; H: tail, end view
From Fielding, 1950
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Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:
Photomicrographs and comparative schematic drawings of buccal cavities of genera of Mononchida
   
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Distribution:

 

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Feeding:

 

      
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Life Cycle:

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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

 

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Management:

 

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References:

Abolafia, J. and Pena-Santiago, R.. 2010. Bathyodontus mirus (Andrassy, 1956), first record of a representative of the suborder Bathyodontina (Nematoda, Mononchida) in the Iberian fauna. Graellsia, 66: 157-163.

Cobb, N.A. New nematode genera found freshwater and non-brackish soils. Washington Acad. Sci.3:432-444.

Coomans, A. and Loof, P. A. A., 1970. Morphology and taxonomy of Bathyodontida (Dorylaimida). Nematologica, 16: 180-196.

Fielding, M.J. 1950. Three new predacious nematodes. The Great Basin Naturalist 10:45-50

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Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: December 09, 2022.