Aponema

 

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Morphology and Anatomy Life Cycle

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 Classification:

Chromadorea
  Chromadoria
   Desmodorida
Desmodorina
             Microlaimoidea
   Microlaimidae
    Aponema Jensen, 1978
   
Note: Aponema decraemerae and A. mnazi were transferred from the genus Aponema to Microlaimus by Kovalyev and Miljutina (2009) because males of those species are diorchic, a characteristic of Microlaimus. Similarly, Microlaimus nanus was transferred to Aponema because the males of that species are monorchic.
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Morphology and Anatomy:

 

Males:

 

Females:

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

 

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Distribution:

Free-living marine nematodes.

 

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Feeding:

  Probably bacteria and perhaps sediments containing algae and protozoa.

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Life Cycle:

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Management:

 

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References:

Kovalyev, S.V., Miljutina, M.A. 2009. A review of the genus Aponema Jensen, 1978 (Nematoda: Microlaimidae) with description of three new species. Zootaxa DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2007.1.3

Revkova, T.N. 2017. Two new species of free-living nematodes genera Microlaimus de Man, 1880 and Aponema Jensen, 1978 (Nematoda: Microlaimidae) from the Black Sea. Zootaxa 4344:387-394.

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