Aquatides

  

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Classification:

Enoplea
Dorylaimia
      Dorylaimida
Nygolaimina
Nygolaimoidea
     Nygolaimidae
Nygolaiminae
       Aquatides  Heyns, 1968

Type species of the genus: Aquatides aquaticus (Thorne, 1930) Heyns, 1968

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Morphology and Anatomy:

 

Odintostyle is a mural tooth.
       

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  • Slender body, length 1.2-4 mm
  • Cuticle smoothe xternally, subcuticle with fine striation
  • Lip region continuous with body contour
  • Tooth linear, similar length to labial diamter
  • Pharynx with conspicuous sheath
  • Prerectum 1x to 4x anal body diameter
  • Tail short, bluntly convex-conoid to hemispharical


    Female:      
  • Didelphic, amphidelphic
  • Vulva a transverse slit

Ref: Andrassy, 2009

Males:  

  • Gubernaculum present
  • 4-7 supplements


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

 

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Aquatides

 

 Classified as predators (Yeates et al., 1993) and predatory behavior of A. thornei on other nematodes extensively studied (Bilgrami et al., 2001).

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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:

Andrassy, I. 2009. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary III.  Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. 608p.

Bilgrami, A.L., Pervez, R., Yoshiga, T., Kondo, E. 2001. Attraction and aggregation behaviour of predatory nematodes, Mesodorylaimus bastiani and Aquatides thornei (Nematoda: Dorylaimida). Applied Entomology and Zoology 36:243-249.

Yeates, G.W., T. Bongers, R. G. M. De Goede, D. W. Freckman, and S. S. Georgieva. 1993. Feeding habits in soil nematode families and genera—An outline for soil ecologists. Journal of Nematology 25:315-331.

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Revised: May 19, 2025.