Aporcelaimellus californicus

Aporcelaimellus californicus	Contents	Rev 04/24/2023
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Classification:

Enoplea

Dorylaimia
Dorylaimida

Aporcelaimidae

Aporcelaimellus californicus Alvarez-Ortega, Subbotin & Pena-Santiago, 2013

Morphology and Anatomy:

Body length 2.46-3.42 mm; slender.
Cuticle of two layers differing in refrqaction.
Labial region offset from body contour by a constriction.
Odontostyle short and thick, 3.9-4.3 times as long as wide, length about 0.9 lip-region diam; aperture about 3/4 of odontostyle length.
Odontophore straight, rod-like, about 2x length of odontostyle.
Enlarged portion about 50% of total length of esophagus.
Tail similar in both sexes; short, conoid with broadly-rounded base.

Ref: Andrassy, 2009; Alvarez-Ortega et al., 2013

Female:

Female gonad diovarial, amphidelphic; vulva transverse.-
Intermediate part of vaginal canal with two riangular sclerotized pieces - pars refringens vaginae.

Males: Male genital system diorchic, testes opposed; spicules dorylaimoid; Ventromedian supplements 10-11.

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

Distribution:

Reported as associated with the rhizosphere of willow trees (Salix sp.) and laurel trees in Napa and Marin counties, California, USA.

Feeding:

Categorized as predators and omnivores (Yeates et al., 1993)

Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

Regulation of opportunistic species.

Alvarez-Ortega, S., Subbotin, S., Pena-Santiago, R. 2013. Morphological and molecular characterisation of Aporceleimellus simplex (Thorne & Swanger, 1936) Loof & Coomans, 1970 with a new concept for Aporcella Andrassy, 2002 (Dorylaimida: Aporcelaimidae. Nematology 15:165-178.

Alvarez-Ortega, S., Subbotin, S., Pena-Santiago, R. 2013. Morphological and molecular study of California species of the genus Aporcelaimellus Heyns, 1965 (Dorylaimida, Aporcelaimidae). Nematology 15:431-449.

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

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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