Tigronchoides		Contents		Rev 06/10/2025
		Classification		Biology and Ecology
		Morphology and Anatomy		Life Cycle
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Classification:

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Morphology and Anatomy:

• Medium-sized body
• Cuticle without annulations,
• Spacious and capacious globe-shaped buccal cavity
• Interparietaleis obliquely grooved, situated dorsally.
• Retrorse teeth, hanging from the anterior with pointed projections
• Pharyngo-intestinal junction is tuberculate.
• Tail similar in both sexes, with caudal glands and spinneret

Ref: Guha and Gantait, 2023

Photomicrographs and comparative schematic drawings of buccal cavities of genera of Mononchida

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Distribution:

Moist soil, freshwater environments.

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Tigronchoides

  A specialist predator of other nematodes.   

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Biology and Ecology:

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Life Cycle:

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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

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Management:

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References:

Guha, M., Gantait, V.V. 2023. A New Species of the Genus Tigronchoides Ivanova and Dzhuraeva, 1971, (Nematoda, Anatonchidae), From India. Int. J. Sci. and Res. 12:1641-1646

Ivanova. T.S. and Dzhuraeva, L.M. 1971. A new genus of a new family Tigronchidae n.fam. (Nematoda: Mononchida) from Tadzhikistan. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Tadzhikskoi SSR, Biologicheskie Nauki 4,45:89-93.

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Copyright  1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: June 10, 2025.