Tylencholaimellidae

Family Tylencholaimellidae

Revised 01/27/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

Class Enoplea

Subclass Dorylaimia

OrderDorylaimida

Suborder Dorylaimina

Superfamily Tylencholaimoidea

Tylencholaimellidae, Jairajpuri, 1964

General Characteristics of Tylencholaimellidae:

cuticle dorylaimoid;
lip region cap-like, more or less offset, lips amalgamated;
odontostyle short, tubular, occasionally with accessory stiffening piece; odontophore with or without basal knobs or flanges;
basal expansion of esophagus short pyriform, usually offset, occupying 1/5 to 1/3 of esophagus length;
female amphidelphic or opisthodelphic, exceptionally prodelphic; vulva transverse;
Male spicules dorylaimoid; ventromedial supplements none to two, spaced;
tail short and rounded to filiform, similar in sexes.

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References

Pena-Santiago, R. 2020. On the identity of some dorylaims (Dorylaimida) recently described from China. Nematology 22:957-960.

Wu, W-J., Xu, C-L., Xie, H., Wang, D-W. 2019. Three new species, one new genus and subfamily of Dorylaimida (de man, 1876) Pearse, 1942, and revisions of the families Tylencholaimellidae Jairajpuri, 1964 and Mydonomidae Thorne, 1964 (Nematoda, Dorylaimida). PeerJ 7:e7541 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7541

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