Subfamily Harpagonchinae
Revised
03/01/26
Nematoda
Chromadorea
Chromadoria
Chromadorida
Chromadorina
Chromadoroidea
- Chromadoridae Filipjev,
1917
- Harpagonchinae Platanova & Potin, 1972
Type genus of the subfamily: Harpagonchus
Platanova & Potin, 1972
A subfamily of marine nematodes that are ectosymbionts of Polychaeta.
- Cuticle with homogeneous punctation without lateral field areas.
- Six outer labial setae
- Buccal cavity with movable triangle-shaped mandibles with anterior solid
hooks.
- Esophagus usually widened anteriorly around
mandibular region and enlarged posteriorly.
- Females diovarial.
- Male with or without precloacal cup-shaped supplemenmts
- Marine nematodes; thus far only recorded as ectosymbionts of
polychaetes
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Andrássy, I. 2005. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary
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Datta, T.K. and Al-Helal, M.A. 2023. Review of Euchromadorinae (Nematoda:
Chromadorida) with description of a new species of Trochamus Boucher & De Bovée,
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Platonova, T.A. & Potin, V.V. 1972 On new genera Harpagonchus and
Harpagonchoides (Nematoda, Chromadorida, Harpagonchidae fam. n.) living on the
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