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
 
   

 Reference:s

Andrássy, I. 2005. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary I.  Hungarian Natural History Museum.

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, 1971 from the Sundarban, India  Zootaxa doi..org/10.11646/zootaxa.5278.3.4

Platonova, T.A. & Potin, V.V. 1972 On new genera Harpagonchus and Harpagonchoides (Nematoda, Chromadorida, Harpagonchidae fam. n.) living on the parapodia and gills of the antarctic polychaetes Aglaophamus Kinberg and Hemipodus Quatrefages. In: Research of the Fauna of the Seas XI (XIX): Results of Biological Studies of the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions  Vol. 5. Published by Academy of Sciences SSSP, Zoological Institute, Leningrad, pp. 81–87. in Russian:

Tchesunov, A.V. 2013. 7.12 Order Chromadorida Chitwood, 1933. In Schmidt-Rheas and de Gruyter, W. Handbook of Zoology.Gastrocticha, Cycloneuralia, Gnatifera. Volume 2: Nematoda

 

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