Drawing from Vazifeh et al., 2019)
Subfamily Tylencholaimellinae
Revised 03/20/23
with characteristics of the family 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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Anterior portion of Tylencholaimellus zeinabadensis. Drawing from Vazifeh et al., 2019) |
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Vazifeh, N., G. Niknam, H. Jabbari, A. Naghavi and R. Peņa-Santiago. 2019. Morphological and molecular characterisation of Tylencholaimellus zeinabadensis sp. n. (Dorylaimida: Tylencholaimellidae) from Iran, with additional data on five known species of the genus. Nematology 21:597-612.
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