Chitwoodius

 

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Classification:

Enoplea
       Dorylaimia
           Dorylaimida
                Tylencholaimidae
         Tylencholaiminae
             Chitwoodius Furstenberg & Heyns, 1966
The generic name was originally proposed as Chitwoodia but since that name was already occupied, the name was changed to Chitwoodius (Furstenberg & Heyns, 1966a, 1966b).
The generic name is, of course, in honor of pioneering nematologist Benjamin Chitwood.
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Morphology and Anatomy:

The genus Chitwoodielloides differs from Chitwoodius in having a more attenuated odontostyle, the odontophore with a thickened base, weakly muscular anterior slender part of pharynx and the vulva a transverse slit (Ahmad and Araki, 2003)..

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Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:
 
 
 
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Distribution:

 

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Feeding:

Nematodes in the Tylencholaimidae often considered fungal feeders (Yeates et al., 1993)

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Life Cycle:

For Ecophysiological Parameters for this genus, click 
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Management:

 

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References:

Ahmad, W. and Araki, M. 2003. New and known species of the family Tylencholaimidae (Nematoda: Dorylaimida) from Japan. J. Nematode Morph. and Syst. 6:1-26.

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

Furstenberg, J.P. & Heyns, J. (1966a). Chitwoodia transvaalensis n. gen., n. sp., and Dorylaimoides longidens n. sp.,two new nematodes from South Africa. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 33, 26-30.

Furstenberg, J.P. & Heyns, J. (1966b). Chitwoodius nom. nov. for Chitwoodia Furstenberg & Heyns, 1966. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 33, 165.

Hoang, H., H.H. Chu, T.A. Duong Nguyen, Q.P. Trinh, J. Abolafia and R. Pena-Santiago. 2019. Morphological and molecular characterisation of Chitwoodius coffeae sp. n. (Dorylaimida: Tylencholaimidae) from Vietnam, with a revised taxonomy of the genus. Nematology 21:509-521.

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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Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: May 27, 2023.