Parkellus

  

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Classification:

Enoplea
Dorylaimia
               Mononchida

Mononchidae   

Parkellus  Jairajpuri, Tahseen, & Choi, 2001

Type species of the genus: Parkellus parkus Jairajpuri, Tahseen, & Choi, 2001

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Morphology and Anatomy:

The main feature distinguishing the genus Parkus from the morphologically similar Coomansus is the location of the dorsal tooth in the posterior half of the buccal cavity (Vu et al., 2021). tRhat separation was contested by Andrassy (2011) and by Zullini and Peneva (2006). However, Siddiqi (2015) and Ahmad and Jairajpuri (2010) agreed with, and accepteed, the separation of Parkellus from Coomansus.

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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:

 Predator nematodes.

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References:

Ahmad, W. and Jairajpuri, M. S. 2010. Mononchida: the predaceous nematodes. Brill, Leiden–Boston.

Andrássy, I. 2011. Three new species of the genus Coomansus Jairajpuri & Khan, 1977 from the Southern Hemisphere (Nematoda: Mononchida). Journal Nematode Morphology and Systematics 14:27-37.

Jairajpuri, M. S., Tahseen, Q. and Choi, Y. E. 2001. Parkellus parkus gen. n., sp.n. and Miconchus koreanus sp. n. (Mononchida), two new predaceous nematodes from Korea. International Journal of Nematology 11:98-103.

Siddiqi, M. R. 2015. Descriptions of seven new genera and ten new species of Mononchida (Nematoda). International Journal of Nematology 25:39-64.

Vu, T.T.T, Rybarczyk-Mydlowska, K., Susulovsky, A., Kubicz, M., Flis, L., Le, T.M.L., Winiszewska, G. 2021. Descriptions of two new and one known species of Parkellus Jairajpuri, Tahseen and Choi, 2001 (Nematoda: Mononchidae) and their phylogenetic position among Mononchida. J. Nematology 53:1-22; https://doi.org/10.21307/jofnem-2021-076

 

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Revised: December 09, 2022.