Aporcella vitrinus

  

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Classification:

Enoplea
Dorylaimia
      Dorylaimida
                        Aporcelaimidae
                Aporcelaiminae

Aporcella vitrinus (Thorne & Swanger, 1936)  Alvarez-Ortega, Subbotin & Pena-Santiago, 2013

Originally described as Aporcelaimus vitrinus by Thorne and Swanger (1936) and transferred to Aporcella by Alvarex-Ortega et al. (2013) on the basis of the nature of the cuticle, the absence of pars refringens vaginae and other characteristics.
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Morphology and Anatomy:

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

 

 

 

 

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 Female:  
  • Female gonad diovarial, amphidelphic; vulva transverse.-
  • Intermediate part of vaginal canal without sclerotized pieces - (pars refringens vaginae absent).
Males:   not found in Alvarez-Ortega et al (2013) sampling of Iberian peninsula or in Naghavi et al (2019) sampling in Iran.

 

 

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

 
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Distribution:

Reported from several locations in Spain, usually in association in tree or relatively undisturbed rhizospheres. Also reported in association with willow (Salix sp.) and grasses in in Napa and Sonoma counties, California, USA (Alvarez-Ortega et al. 1913a) and in East Azarbaijan province of Iran (Naghavi et al., 2019)..

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Feeding:

  Categorized as predators and omnivores (Yeates et al., 1993)  
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Biology and Ecology:
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Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

For Ecophysiological Parameters for this species, click If species level data are not available, click for genus level 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:

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

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

Naghavi, A., G. Niknam, N. Vazifeh and R. Pena-Santiago. 2019. Morphological and molecular characterisation of two species of Aporcella Andrassy, 2002 (Nematoda: Dorylaimida: Aporcelaimidae) from Iran, with new insights into the phylogeny of the genus. Nematology 21:655-665.

Thorne, G. and 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.

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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Revised: July 26, 2023.