Stenodorylaimus		Contents		Rev 04/30/2024
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Classification:

Type species of the genus: Stenodorylaimus textilis (Thorne & Swanger, 1936) Alvarez-Ortega & Pena-Santiago, 2011

The genus was erected following examination of old materaial in the USDA Nematode Collection that was collected by Thorne and labelled variously as Pungentus and Dorylaimus.

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Morphology and Anatomy:

• Body length 3.7-5.1 mm; slender
• Cuticle with fine striations
• Lip region rounded, offset by a constriction
• Odontostyle length about twice the lip region width, slender, with small aperture; guiding ring double
• Odontophore rod-like, about same length as odontostyle
• Rounded conoid tail, dorsally convex

Female:

• Didelphic-amphidelphic, both branches equally developed
• Vulva a transverse slit

Male:

• Diorchic, testes opposed
• Spicules dorylaimoid
• Ventromedian supplements 14-19, irregularly spaced

Ref: Alvarez-Ortega and Pena-Santiago, 2011

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Distribution:

Described from soil environments in southern California and Utah, USA.

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References:

Alvarez-Ortega, S. and Pena-Santiago, R. 2011. Re-description of two atypical species of Pungentus Thorne & Swanger, 1936, with proposal of Stenodorylaimus gen. n. (Nematoda, Dorylaimida, Nordiidae).  Zootaxa 2799:49-62.

Thorne, G. (1939) A monograph of the nematodes of the superfamily Dorylaimoidea. Capita Zoologica, 8, 1–261.

Thorne, G. & Swanger, H.H. (1936) A monograph of the nematode genera Dorylaimus Dujardin, Aporcelaimus n. g., Dorylaimoides n. g. and Pungentus n. g. Capita Zoologica, 6, 1–223

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