Aporcelinus jiaonanensis

Aporcelinus jiaonanensis	Contents	Rev 04/24/2023
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Classification:

Enoplea

Dorylaimia
Dorylaimida

Aporcelaimidae

Aporcelinus jiaonanensis (Zhao & Zhao, 2010) Alvarez-Ortega & Pena-Santiago, 2013

Synonyms

Aporcelaimellus jiaonanensis Zhao & Zhao, 2010

Morphology and Anatomy:

Body length 1.11-1.71 mm; moderately slender.
Labial region weakly angular, offset from body contour by a weak constriction.
Odontostyle strong, 1.1-1.3 x lip width; 20-23 um long; guiding ring simple
Odontophore rod-like, 1.6-1.9 x odontostyle length
Basal part of esophagus about 50% of total esophagus length
Tail conoid, tapering to a straight or ventrally convex terminus..

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

Females:

Didelphic-amphidelphic.
Pars dilatata moderately developed; oviduct and uterus surrounded by a weak sphincter, pars refringens vaginae as two drop-shaped pieces
Vulva a transverse slit
Prerectum and rectum both 1-1.5 x abd.

Males:

Very rare, Nguyen et al (2017) found one male in collections that included 50 females
Genital system diorchic; testes opposed
Nine ventromedian supplents 15 um apart and a pait of adanal supplements
Spicules robust, 1.3 x body diameter at cloaca.

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

Distribution:

Abundant in natural and cultivated areas in Vietnam (Nguyen et al., 2017)

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 by predation.

AÂlvarez-Ortega, S. & Pen-Santiago, R. (2013). Taxonomy of the genus Aporcelaimellus Heyns, 1965 (Nematoda, Dorylaimida, Aporcelaimidae). Zootaxa 3669, 243-260. DOI: 10. 11646/zootaxa.3669.3.3

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

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

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

Zhao, C.D. & Zhao, H.H. (2010). [A new species of the genus Aporcelaimellus Heyns, 1965 Aporcelaimellus jiaoanensis sp. nov. (Nematoda, Dorylaimida, Aporcelaimidae).] Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 35, 876-879. (In Chinese.)

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