Family Mononchidae

Revised 09/16/21

      

Nematoda 
                   
Enoplea

Dorylaimia

Mononchida

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:

Video of Mononchus feeding

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