Chitwoodiellus

  

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Morphology and Anatomy Life Cycle
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Classification:

Enoplea
       Dorylaimia
           Dorylaimida
                Tylencholaimidae
         Tylencholaiminae
             Chitwoodiellus Jimenez-Guirado & Pena-Santiago, 1992
Cautionary Note on Genus name: There is a genus of insect parasitic nematodes with the name Chitwoodiella (family Travossasinematidae).
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Morphology and Anatomy:

The genus Chitwoodielloides differs from Chitwoodiellus in having longer odontostyle and odontophore, a posterior guiding ring, absence of characteristic strongly muscular spindle-shaped area at the junction of odontophore base with esophageal lining, and nature of junction of two parts of the esophagus (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:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Chitwoodiellus

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

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Biology and Ecology:

 

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Life Cycle:

For Ecophysiological Parameters for this genus, click 
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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

 

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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.

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.

Jimnez-Guirado, D. & Pena-Santiago, R. (1992). Description of Chitwoodiellus gracilis gen. n., sp. n. from Spain, with a study on its morphometric differentiation from Chitwoodius Furstenberg & Heyns, 1966 (Nematoda: Tylencholaimidae). Nematologica 38, 22-35. DOI: 10.1163/187529292X00027.

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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Revised: June 02, 2025.