Epacrolaimus		Contents		Rev 05/12/2025
		Classification		Biology and Ecology
		Morphology and Anatomy		Life Cycle
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Classification:

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Morphology and Anatomy:

• Very large nematodes, 7-9 mm.
• Cuticle thick, marked with fine criss-cross lines.
• Lip region offset from body contour, lips separate.
• Odontostyle arched, with large aperture.
• Esophagus long, muscular, expanding before 50% of its length,
• Female didelphic, amphidelphic; vulva transverse.
• Male diorchic with 11-16 separated supplements.
• Tail similar in both sexes bluntly rounded to subdigitate, length slightly less than anal body diameter.

Ref. Andrassy, 2000.

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Distribution:

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Epacrolaimus

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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. 2000. Four large-sized species of the family Aporcelaimidae (Nematoda, Dorylaimida) with proposal of a new genus, Epacrolaimus gen. n. Opuscula Zoologica Budapest 32:3-26.

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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