Prodorylaimus

  

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Classification:

Enoplea
Dorylaimia
    Dorylaimida
Dorylaimidae
Prodorylaiminae

Prodorylaimus Andrassy 1959

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Morphology and Anatomy:

  • Body length 1-5mm
  • Cuticle almost smooth
  • Lip region offset from body contour
  • Odontostyle stong, longer than head width, aperture 1/4-1/3 of its length
  • Odontophore rod-like, generally longer than odontostyle
  • Enlarged portion of esophagus about half total length
  • Females diovarial, amphidelphic
  • Male with numerous supplements, mainly contiguous
  • Tail in both sexes elongate to filiform, 2-25x anal body diameter
  
Ref: Andrassy, 2009; Vinciguerra et al., 2016

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Distribution:

Often found in freshwater and moist habitats.

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Prodorylaimus

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

   
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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

Omnivores or generalist predators; regulation of prey species.

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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.

Loof, P.A.A. 1996. Dichotomous and polytomous identification keys for females of the genera Prodorylaimus Andrassy, 1959 and Laimydorus Siddiqi, 1969 (Nematoda: Dorylaimoidea). Russian J. Nematology 4:7-28.

Vinciguerra, M.T., Eskandari, A., Clausi, M., Asghari, R., Rappazzo, G. 2016.  Description and molecular characterisation of two new species of Dorylaimidae (Dorylaimida: Nematoda) from Iran, with a compendium of all the nominal species of Dorylaimus Dujardin, 1845. Nematology 18:293-310.

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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