Aporcelaimellus nivalis

Aporcelaimellus nivalis	Contents	Rev 08/03/2020
	Classification	Biology and Ecology
	Morphology and Anatomy	Life Cycle
Return to Aporcelaimellus Menu		Ecosystem Functions and Services
	Distribution	Management
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Classification:

Enoplea

Dorylaimia
Dorylaimida

Aporcelaimidae

Aporcelaimellus nivalis (Altherr, 1952) Heyns, 1966

Morphology and Anatomy:

Female:

Males: Unknown

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

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

Bilgrami (1993) reported the predatory behavior of A. nivalis on prey of different trophic categories, including frequency of encounters resulting in attack, attacks resulting in wounding, feeding after wounding, prey left unconsumed and duration of feeding on individual prey. Migratory juveniles of sedentary endoparasitic nematodes were highly susceptible but other predator species were quite resistant to predation. Ectoparasitic and facultatively endoparasiticspecies including Hoplolaimus indicus, Scutellonema sp., Hemicriconemoides mangiferae, Hemicycliophora dhirendri were provided physical resistance to attack by features such ass such as thick body cuticle, thick striations and cuticular sheaths. Other nematodes exhibited behavioral resistance to predation in the form of rapid undulatory activity and evasive action, e.g. Mononchus aquaticus and Rhabditis sp.

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Biology and Ecology:

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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

Regulation of opportunistic species by predation.

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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.

Bilgrami, A.L. 1993. Analysis of the predation by Aporcelaimellus nivalis on prey nematodes From different prey trophic categories. Nematologica 39:356-365.

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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