Order Rhabditida

12/16/2024

• a large order of bacterial-feeding and plant-feeding families, and of vertebrate and invertebrate parasites;
• soil and freshwater inhabiants.
• males with delicate rays in caudal alae

Genera include:

• around 450 genera in recent classification systems, e.g. De Ley and Blaxter, 2002, 2006  Includes most of the taxa that were in the Secernentea in older classical schemes.
• Rhabditina; Tylenchina; Myolaimina
• Rhabditis, 
• Caenorhabditis, 
• Cruznema, 
• Pelodera
• Bursilla (Mesorhabditis),
• Heterorhabditis.
  

Anterior region of Cruznema tripartitum.

Abolafia, J and Pena-Santiago, R. 2007. Nematodes of the Order Rhabditida from Andalucía Oriental, Spain. The Genera Protorhabditis (Osche, 1952) Dougherty, 1953 and Diploscapter Cobb, 1913, with Description of P. spiculocrestata sp. n. and a Species Protorhabditis Key. Journal of Nematology, 39:263-274.

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