Labronema

 

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Classification:

Enoplea
Dorylaimidae
Labronematinae

Labronema Thorne, 1939

Type sepcies of the genus: Labronema ferox Thorne, 1939

The genus  was moved to Dorylaimidae: Labronematinae with other round-tailed genera, by Pena-Santiago and Alvarez-Ortega (2014).

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Morphology and Anatomy:

 

Ref. Andrassy, 2009, 2011.

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Female:  

  • Female diovarial, amphidelphic;
  • Vulva a longitudinal slit with sclerotized lips or pore-like..
 

Males:  

  • Males common in some species, unknown in about 40% of species.
  • Dorylaimoid spicules. 
  • Ventromedian supplements contiguous, 14 to 36.



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

 

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Feeding:

Feed as predators on other nematodes.  Classified as predator and omnivore by Yeates et al. (2009).

Wood (1973) observed Labronema sp. feeding and reproducing on algae and moss in tissue culture.

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Video of Labronema feeding

     
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Biology and Ecology:

   
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Life Cycle:

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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

 

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Management:

 

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References:

Andrassy, I. 2009. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary III.  Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. 608p.

Andrassy, I. 2011. Three new bisexual species of Labronema Thorne, 1939 (Nematoda: Qudsianematidae). Opusc. Zool. Budapest 42:107-120.

Pena-Santiago, R. and S. Alvarez-Ortega. 2014. An integrative approach to assess the phylogeny and the systematics of rounded-tailed genera of the subfamily Qudsianematinae (Nematoda, Dorylaimida). Zoologica Scripta 43:418-428.

Thorne, G. 1939. A monograph of the nematodes of the superfamily Dorylaimoidea. Capita Zool. 8: 1-263.

Wood, F.H. 1973. Nematode feeding relationships: Feeding relationships of soil-dwelling nematodes. Soil Riol. Biochem. 5: 593-601.

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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