Anoplostoma

 

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Rev: 08/26/2024

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Classification:

Enoplea
  Enoplia
        Enoplida
            Enoplina
                Enoploidea
                   Anoplostomatidae
Anophostomatinae

Anoplostoma Butschli, 1874

Type species of the genus: Anoplostoma viviparum (Bastian, 1865) Butschli, 1874

    Synonyms:

Sympocostoma viviparum Bastian, 1865

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Species of the genus are morpholgically quite similar and separated principally by morphometric chracteristics.

Ref: Tchesunov and Thanh, 2010; Smol et al., 2014

Anoplostoma spp, examples of male head and posterior regions.
Drawings from Tchesunov and Thanh, 2020
Anoplostoma tumidum: female anterior and buccal cavity. Scale bar = 10 um
Photomicrograph from Li and Guo, 2016
   
 
Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:


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Distribution:

Free-living marine nematodes.  Several species described from intertidal mud sediments associated with mangroves (e.g. A. nhatrangensis, A. paraviviparum, A. tumidum).

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Feeding:

 

 

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Life Cycle:

 
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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

 

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Management:

 
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References:

Bastian, H.C. 1865. Monograph on the Anguillulidae, or free nematoids, marine, land and freshwater; with descriptions of 100 new species.  Trans. Linn. Soc. London 25:73-184.

Butschli, O. 1874. Zur Kenntnis der freilebenden Nematoden, , insbesondere der des Kieler Hafens. Abhandlungen der Senchenbergischen Naturforschen Geselischaft Bd. 9. S.236-292,

Coomans, A., Vincx, M., Decraemer, W. 1985. Nematodes from a fresh-water pool on a coral island in the Solomon Islands. Hydrobiologia 123:265-281.

Smol, N., Muthumbi, A., Sharma, J. 2014. Order Enoplida, 7.3. In Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (ed) Handbook of Zoology. De Gruyter, Berlin

Tchesunov, A.V. and Thanh, N.V. 2010. A. desription of Anoplostoma nhatrangensis sp.n. from magrove habitatas of Nha Trang, Central Vietnam, with a review of the genus Anoplostoma Butschli, 1874 (Nematoda: Enoplida). Invert. Zool. 7:93-105.

Li, Y., Guo, Y. 2016. Two New Free-Living Marine Nematode Species of the Genus Anoplostoma (Anoplostomatidae) from the Mangrove Habitats of Xiamen Bay, East China Sea. J. Ocean Univ. China DOI 10.1007/s11802-016-2896-x

 

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Revised: August 26, 2024.