Rhyssocolpus iuventutis

Rhyssocolpus iuventutis	Contents	Rev 12/21/2021
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Classification:

Enoplea

Dorylaimia
Dorylaimida

Nordiidae

Rhyssocolpus iuventutis Andrassy, 1971

Morphology and Anatomy:

Female:

Length 1.4-1.7 mm, body an open spiral.

Small odontostyle attached to longer, slender odontophore which is surrounded by a muscular bulb. The bulb is set off from the esophagus by a constriction.

Paired gonads. didelphic, amphidelphic; long ovaries.


Spermatheca filled with spindle-shaped sperm	Vulva a transverse slit

Tail strongly concave and pointed.

Ref: Pena-Santiago et al., 2015.

Males:

Similar shape to female.

Two testes, spindle-shaped sperm

Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:

Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

Ebsary, B.A. 1984. Rhyssocolpus iuventutis n. sp.( Nematode: Nordiidae) from Ellesmere Island and a redescription of Lindseyus costatus Ferris and Ferris, 1973 (Nematoda: Roqueidae) from Quebec, Canada. J. Nematology 16:235-239.

PeÃ±a-Santiago, R. Guerrero, P., LiÃ©bana, G., del Carmen GarcÃa, M., Palomeque, T., Lorite, P. 2015. Characterisation of an Iberian population of Rhyssocolpus iuventutis AndrÃ¡ssy, 1971 (Dorylaimida: Nordiidae), with a revised taxonomy of the genus. Nematology 17:139-153.