Family Iotonchiidae

                                 Revised 01/16/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

  Class Chromadorea

    Subclass Chromadoria

Rhabditida

               Tylenchina
        Iotonchoidea
         Iotonchiidae (Goodey, 1953) Skarbilovich, 1959

 

Nematode parasites of insects and fungi.     

Alternationn of heterosexual and parthenogenetic generations occurs in the host body


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References

Siddiqi, M. R. 2000. Tylenchida: Parasites of plants and insects, 2nd ed. Wallingford: CABI Publishing.

Subbotin, S.A. 2014. Order Tylenchida Thorne, 1949. In Schmidt-Raesa, A. (ed). Handbook of Zoology: Gastroctricha, Cycloneurelia and Gnathifera. Vol 2. Nematoda. De Gruyter, Berlin

Yeates, G.W., T. Bongers, R.G.M. de Goede, D.W.Freckman and S.S. Georgieva. 1993. Feeding habits in soil nematode families - an outline for ecologists. Journal of Nematology 25:315-331. 

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