Amphidorylaimus

  

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Classification:

Enoplea
Dorylaimia
     Dorylaimida
Dorylaimidae
Amphidorylaiminae

Amphidorylaimus Andrassy, 1960

Type species of he genus: Amphidorylaimus infecundus (Cobb in Thorne & Swanger, 1936) Andrassy, 1960

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Morphology and Anatomy:

  • Slender nematodes around 1 mm long.
  • Cuticle smooth or finely striated.
  • Head offsert, angular, lips separated.
  • Amphid apertures broad, funnel-shaped.
  • Odontostyle straight, about as long as lip width, aperture 1/3 of its length.
  • Guiding ring double, less than 1 lip width from anterior.
  • Esophagus expansion posterior to mid-point of its length.
  • Prerectum in both sexes 2- anal body diameters long.
  • Tail filiform in both sexes, abdout 20x anal body diameter.

Female:

  • Genital system amphidelphic.
  • Vulva longitudinal slit at 30-40% of body length.
  

Male:

  • Diorchic
  • Spicules simple, not doryl;imoid.
  • 1-2 precloacal ventromedian supplements.

Ref: Andrassy, 1988

 

  
   
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Andrassy, I. 1960. Taxonomische Ubersicht der Dorylaimen (Nematoda). II. Acta Zoologica Hungarica, 6 : 1-28.

Andrassy, I. 1988. The superfamily Dorylaimoidea (Nematoda): a review. Family Dorylaimidae. Opusc. Zoologica Budapest.

Pena-Santiago, R. 2021. Dorylaimida Mundi (Nematoda); checklist of genera and species, with their records. UJA Editorial. 957p.

 

 

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