Revised 09/16/21
Mononchina
Mononchoidea
Mononchidae
Predaceous nematodes, microbivores as juveniles, predators as adults.
Globose stoma with a single large dorsal tooth. No subventral fields of denticles.
Long, muscular, tubular esophagus.
Click on thumbnail below for video of Mononchus feeding as a predator on other nematodes: