Tylencholaimellus montanus

Tylencholaimellus montanus	Contents	Rev 06/16/2023
	Classification	Biology and Ecology
	Morphology and Anatomy	Life Cycle
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Tylencholaimellus montanus Thorne, 1939

Morphology and Anatomy:

.	Female:
Males:	Female:
Basal portion of esophagus
Egg in opisthodelphic uterus
Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:

Feeding:

Classified as hyphal feeding (Yeates et al., 1993) and probably on more complex fungal structures.

Wood (1973) observed Tylencholaimellus montanus feeding and reproducing on fungi in tissue culture.

Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

References:

Thorne, G. 1939. A monograph of the nematodes of the superfamily Dorylaimoidea. Capita Zool. 8: 1-263.

V azifeh, N., G. N iknam, H. Jabbari, A. Naghavi and R. Pena-Santiago 2019. Morphological and molecular characterisation of Tylencholaimellus zeinabadensis sp. n. (Dorylaimida: Tylencholaimellidae) from Iran, with additional data on five known species of the genus. Nematology 21:597-612.

Wood, F.H. 1973. Nematode feeding relationships: Feeding relationships of soil-dwelling nematodes. Soil Riol. Biochem. 5: 593-601.

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