Actinolaimoides

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Classification:

Enoplea
Dorylaimia Dorylaimida: Nordiidae

Actinolaimoides Meyl, 1957

Type species of the genus: Actinolaimoides tobleri (Menzel & Micoletzky, 1925) Meyl, 1957

Morphology and Anatomy:

Small-sized nematodes.
Lip region narrow, rounded and continuouswith body contour; papillae not raised.
Amphids narrow with slit-like aperture about one-half lip region widtli long.
Spear guiding apparatus posteriorly bulboid.
Odontostyle attenuated, lumen fine and base smooth, less than two lip region widths long.
Odontophore rod-like with slightly swollen base; without distinct basal knobs or flangest.
Esophagus enlarging gradually behind middle.
Vulva large, pore-like.
Reproductive system monoopisthodelphic.
Tail conoid, arcuate.
Males not known.
Type species: Actinolaimoides tobleri (Micoletzky, 1925) Meyl, 1957

Ref: Shaheen, 2003.

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

Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Actinolaimoides

(Yeates et al., 1993).

Life Cycle:

For Ecophysiological Parameters for this genus, click

Ecosystem Functions and Services:

References:

Andrássy, I. 2009. Free-living nematodes of Hungary, III. Hungarian Natural History Museum. 608p.

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

Siddiqi, M.R. 1981. Six new genera of dorylaimid nematodes. Nematologica 27:397-421.

Shaheen, A. 2003. Some studies on the taxonomy of dorylaim nematodes. PhD Thesis, Aligarh Muslim University, India

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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