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Dorylaimia Dorylaimida
Nordiidae
Pungentinae
Andrassy (2009) redefined Enchodelus and transferred a substantial proportion of its species to Heterodorus Altherr, 1952 which is quite similar to Rhyssocolpus, although both are regarded as valid taxa.
Synonym:
Rotundus Ahmad & Jairajpuri, 1980
Ref: Andrassy, 2009.
Mainly reported from northern hemisphere.
Plant- feeding on mosses and perhaps algae. Intestine often green from consumptiuon of chlorophyll.
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Andrassy, I. 2009. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary III. Hungarian Natural Historm Museum 608p.
Guerrero, P. and Pena-Santiago, R. 2007. Redescription of Enchodelus species studied by Thorne in 1939 (Dorylaimida: Nordiidae). Nematology 9:93-121.
Jairajpuri, M.S. and Ahmad, W. 1992, Dorylaimida. Free-living, Predaceous and Plant-parasitic Nematodes. E.J. Brill, Leiden 458p.
Thorne, G. 1939. A monograph of the nematodes of the superfamily Dorylaimoidea. Capita Zool. 8: 1-263.
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