Aporcelinus granuliferus

  

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Classification:

Enoplea
Dorylaimia
      Dorylaimida
                        Aporcelaimidae

Aporcelinus granuliferus (Cobb, 1893) Andrassy, 2009

Originally described as Dorylaimus granuliferus by Cobb (1893) and progressively transferred by Andrassy to Eudorylaimus, Allodorylaimus and then in 2009 to Aporcelinus as the type species of this new genus (Pena-Santiago and Abolafis, 2016)...
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Morphology and Anatomy:

Ref: Andrassy, 2009; Pena-Santiago and Abolafia, 2016; Nguyen et al., 2017

 

 

 

 

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 Female:  
Didelphic-amphidelphic.
Pars dilatata moderately developed; pars refringens vaginae as two drop-shaped pieces
Vulva a transverse slit
Prerectum and rectum both 1-1.5 x abd.
Males:   not found by Cobb (1918); unknown

 

 

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Distribution:

Common in natural and cultivated areas in Vietnam (Nguyen et al., 2017) and also the most frequently reported species of the genus worldwide.

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Feeding:

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

Andrssy, I. (2009). Aporcelinus, a new genus of aporcelaimoid nematodes (Dorylaimida), and its species. International Journal of Nematology 19, 121-136.

Cobb, N.A. (1893). Nematodes, mostly Australian and Fijian. Miscellaneous Publications 13, 1-59

.Nguyen, T.A.D.,  J. Abolafia, K. Dumack, M. Bonkowski and R. Pena-Santiago. 2017. Two known species of Aporcelinus Andrássy, 2009 (Dorylaimida: Aporcelaimidae) from Vietnam, with the first molecular study of the genus. Nmeatology 19:858-868.

Pena-Santiago, R., and Abolafia, J. 2016. On the identity of Aporcelinus granuliferus (Cobb, 1893) Andrassy, 2009 and its taxonomic consequences. Nematology 18:999-1014.

 

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Revised: December 16, 2023.