Aulolaimoides

  

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Classification:

Enoplea
       Dorylaimia
           Dorylaimida
   Tylencholaimoidea
                Aulolaimoididae
             Aulolaimoides Micoletzky, 1915
Type species of the genus:  Aulolaimoides elegans Micoletzky, 1915
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Morphology and Anatomy:

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  •  Body length 0.6-1.9 mm
  • Cuticle dory laimoid , smooth or finely striated
  • Lip region continuous with body contour, lips amalgamated
  • Stoma with basket-like structure of thickenings
  • Amphid fovea with rib-like elenments
  • Odontostyle delicate, narrow lumen, small aperture
  • Odontophore long, flanged
  • Esophagus tripsartite, basal paert with scalerotized valve chamber
  • Tail long and filiform in bioth sexes

Female:

  • Monodelphic, opisthodelphic; with or without pre-vulval sac
  • Vagina swollen
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Male:

  • Spicules slenede, small gubernaculum
  • One or two pairs of ventro-median suppliments
 
 
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Life Cycle:

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References:

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

Peralta, M. and R. Pena-Santiago. 1996. Nematodes of the order Dorylaimida from Andalucia Oriental, Spain. The families Leptonchidae Thome, 1935 and Aulolaimoididae Jairajpuri, 1964. Fundamental and Applied Nematology 19:481-497.

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Copyright  1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: April 03, 2023.