Nematode Pictures
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Nematode Gallery
Achromadora
Acrobeles
Acrobeles complexus
Acrobeloides Cobb, 1924
Aglenchus
Alaimus
Alirhabditis
Anaplectus De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1933
Anatonchus and Prionchulus
Anomyctus xenurus
Anoplostoma
Aphanolaimus sp.
Aphelenchoides sp.
Aphelenchus avenae
Aporcelaimellus
Aporcelaimus
Aquatides aquaticus (Thorne, 1930) Heyns, 1968
Ascolaimus elongatus
Aulolaimoides
Aulolaimus oxycephalus de Man, 1880
Axonolaimus
The free-living marine nematodes genus Axonolaimus was established by Dr. J.G. de Man in 1889. In samples from the coast of Penzance (UK) he discovered this genus for the first time and described the type species as Axonolaimus filiformis de Man, 1889.
Basiria
Bastiania de Man, 1876
Bathylaimus Cobb, 1894
The marine nematode genus Bathylaimus Cobb, 1894 (Enoplida: Tripyloididae Filipjev, 1918) is widely distributed and occurs usually in sandy sublitoral shallow marine habitats. Over 40 species have been described so far.
Bathyodontus
The genus Bathyodontus Fielding, 1950 includes only a handful of described species. Although distributed on all continents (except Australia), it is considered a rare genus, with only one species present in Europe.
Belondiridae
The Dorylaimida family Belondiridae Thorne, 1939 includes two subfamilies (Axonchiinae Thorne, 1964 and Belondirinae Thorne, 1939) and a total of 18 genera, o.a. Axonchium Cobb, 1920 and Syncheilaxonchium Coomans & Nair, 1975.
Belonolaimus longicaudatus
The plant-parasitic nematode Belonolaimus longicaudatus Rau, 1958 is a remarkable nematode, i.e. it is very long (2-3 mm), lip region and body annulated.
Boleodorus Thorne, 1941
The nematode genus Boleodorus Thorne, 1941 belongs to the extensive family Tylenchidae Örley, 1880, and includes at present about 30 nominal species (Geraert, 2008). All species are rather small in size (< 0.7 mm), have a ventrally curved body, oocytes in several rows and small refractive sperm in an offset spermatheca.
Bunonema richtersi
Bursaphelenchus
Butlerius
The genus Butlerius Goodey, 1929 includes about 10 species and can be found in Europe, North- & South-America and Asia. All species are carnivorous in behaviour and and can be found inhabiting soil, in compost, mosses and decaying plant roots.
Camallanus cotti
Carcharolaimus banaticus
Choanolaimus psammophilus
Clavicaudatus clavidaudatus
Clavicaudoides trophurus Heyns, 1968
Criconemoides decipiens
Cruznema tripartitum
Desmodora sp.
Desmoscolex
Discolaimus
Dorylaimus stagnalis
Epitobrilus steineri (Micoletzky, 1925) Zullini, 2005
Epsilonema
Globodera pallida (Stone, 1973) Behrens, 1975
Globodera rostochiensis
Globodera rostochiensis
Haliplectus Cobb, 1913
Helicotylenchus
Hemicycliophora thienemanni
Hirschmanniella Luc & Goodey, 1964
Meloidogyne duytsi Karssen, van Aelst & van der Putten, 1998
Meloidogyne duytsi (spicules)
Meloidogyne duytsi with Pasteuria penetrans
Meloidogyne duytsi (S-E pore)
Meloidogyne duytsi (Perineal pattern)
Meloidogyne duytsi posterior body
Meloidogyne incognita
Meloidogyne kralli
Meloidogyne kralli Jepson
Meloidogyne ulmi
Mesocriconema xenoplax
Metateratocephalus crassidens
Monhystera sp.
Mononchoides striatus (Bütschli, 1976) Goodey, 1963
Mononchus Bastian, 1865
Mylonchulus
Nacobbus aberrans sensu lato
Nygolaimus brachyuris (de Man, 1880)
Odontophora (Bütschli, 1874)
Paratrichodorus
Pratylenchus crenatus Loof, 1960
Pratylenchus penetrans
Pratylenchus thornei Sher & Allen, 1953
Pratylenchus Vulnus
Prionchulus and Anatonchus
Prodorylaimus
Rotylenchulus borealis Loof & Oostenbrink, 1962
Rotylenchus robustus
Sclerolaimus paradoxus (Loof & Jairajpuri, 1968) Jairajpuri & Ahmed, 1992
Steinernema
Steinernema affine (Bovien, 1937) Wouts et al., 1982
Teratocephalus sp.
Theristus sp.
Tylencholaimus minimus de Man, 1876
Tylencholaimellus
Tylencholaimus sp.
Tylenchorhynchus
The plant-parasitic nematode genus Tylenchorhynchus Cobb, 1913 includes at present more then 130 nominal species (sensu Geraert, 2011). While identification towards species level is difficult, as a genus it is easy to recognize. The body is about 1 mm or less in length, cleary annulated, with a lateral field with four incisures.
Wilsonema Cobb, 1913
Zeldia