Afrodorylaimus

  

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Morphology and Anatomy Life Cycle
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Classification:

Enoplea
Dorylaimia
     Dorylaimida
Dorylaimidae
Afrodorylaiminae

Afrodorylaimus Andrassy, 1964

 

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Morphology and Anatomy:

 
  • Cuticle smooth, thin.
  • Lip region moderately offset from body contour
  • Odontostyle straight with wide lumen, length 2.0x labial diameter.
  • Guiding ring thin, simple.
  • Prerectum short.
  • Female genital system diovarial, amphidelphic.
  • Tail long and filiform in female, short, conoid, ventrally curved, with pointed terminus in male.

Ref: Andrássy, 2009; Vinciguerra, 2006..
   
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Distribution:

Moist soil, mosses, semi-aquatic and freshwater habitats.

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Feeding:

Categorized as omnivores (Yeates et al., 1993).

   
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Biology and Ecology:

 

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Life Cycle:

Males not present, not sexually reproducing.

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References:

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

Vinciguerra, M.T. 2006. Dorylaimida Part II: Superfamily Dorylaimoidea.  Pp 392-467 in Eyualem-Abebe, W. Traunspurger and I Andrassy (eds) Freshwater Nematodes: Ecology and Taxonomy. CABI, Cambridge MA.

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: November 19, 2019.