Rev 06/06/2023
Type species of the genus: Thorneella teres (Thorne & Swanger, 1936) Andrassy, 1960
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Andrassy (2009) noted the similarity of morpholohgy and habitat with that of Sphaeroamphis.
Type species described from a brackish warter habitat in the USA.
Andrassy, I. 1987. The superfamily Dorylaimoidea (Nematoda) - a review. Families Thorniidae and Thronenematidae. Acta Zoologica Hungarica 33:277-315.
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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