Rhabditina

Diplogaster sp., copyright Astrid Beyer.

Belongs within: Secernentea.
Contains: Rhabditoidea, Strongyloidea, Cylindrocorporidae.

The Rhabditina is a group of nematodes including both free-living and animal-parasitic forms. Possible synapomorphies of the group include the presence of a bursa with rays in the male, and a short muscular part to the stegostom, consisting of less than four muscle sets in at least the juvenile stages (Ley & Blaxter 2002).

Rhabditina
    |  i. s.: Rhabditoides LB02
    |         Rhitis inermiformis RK91
    |--Bunonematomorpha [Bunonematoidea] LB0
    |    |--Bunonema [Bunonematidae] LB02
    |    `--Pterygorhabditidae LB02
    |--Rhabditomorpha LB02
    |    |  i. s.: Carabonematidae LB02
    |    |         Agfidae LB02
    |    |--Rhabditoidea LB02
    |    |--Strongyloidea LB02
    |    `--Mesorhabditoidea LB02
    |         |--Mesorhabditis BG-M11 [Mesorhabditidae LB02]
    |         |    |--M. longespiculosa BG-M11
    |         |    `--M. miotki BG-M11
    |         `--Pelodera [Peloderidae] LB02
    |              |--P. coarctata L02b
    |              |--P. strongyloides L02b
    |              `--P. teres L02b
    `--Diplogasteromorpha [Diplogasterida] LB02
         |  i. s.: Eudiplogaster MM02
         |           |--E. aphodii MM02
         |           `--E. paramatus L02a
         |--Odontopharyngidae [Odontopharyngoidea] LB02
         `--Diplogastroidea PJ03
              |--Pseudodiplogasteroididae LB02
              |--Diplogasteroididae LB02
              |--Neodiplogasteridae LB02
              |--Mehdinematidae LB02
              |--Cephalobiidae LB02
              |--Longibucca Chitwood 1933 [Longibuccidae] PJ03
              |    |--*L. vivipara Chitwood 1933 PJ03
              |    `--L. lasiura McIntosh & Chitwood 1934 [incl. L. eptesica Elsea 1953] PJ03
              |--Cylindrocorporidae PJ03
              `--Diplogasteridae LB02
                   |--Pristionchus pacificus H02
                   `--Diplogaster H02
                        |--D. aerivora G02
                        |--D. longicauda H02
                        |--D. minor G02
                        `--D. robustus G02

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BG-M11] Borgonie, G., A. García-Moyano, D. Litthauer, W. Bert, A. Bester, E. van Heerden, C. Möller, M. Erasmus & T. C. Onstott. 2011. Nematoda from the terrestrial deep subsurface of South Africa. Nature 474: 79-82.

[G02] Gems, D. 2002. Ageing. In The Biology of Nematodes (D. L. Lee, ed.) pp. 413-455. Taylor & Francis: Florence (Kentucky).

[H02] Hope, I. A. 2002. Embryology, developmental biology and the genome. In The Biology of Nematodes (D. L. Lee, ed.) pp. 121-145. Taylor & Francis: Florence (Kentucky).

[L02a] Lee, D. L. 2002a. Life cycles. In The Biology of Nematodes (D. L. Lee, ed.) pp. 61-72. Taylor & Francis: Florence (Kentucky).

[L02b] Lee, D. L. 2002b. Behaviour. In The Biology of Nematodes (D. L. Lee, ed.) pp. 369-387. Taylor & Francis: Florence (Kentucky).

[LB02] Ley, P. de, & M. Blaxter. 2002. Systematic position and phylogeny. In The Biology of Nematodes (D. L. Lee, ed.) pp. 1-30. Taylor & Francis: Florence (Kentucky).

[MM02] Munn, E. A., & P. D. Munn. 2002. Feeding and digestion. In The Biology of Nematodes (D. L. Lee, ed.) pp. 211-232. Taylor & Francis: Florence (Kentucky).

[PJ03] Poinar, G. O., T. A. Jackson, N. L. Bell & M. B. Wahid. 2003. Cylindrocorpus inevectus sp. n. associated with the oil palm weevil, Elaeidobius kamerunicus (Faust) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), with a synopsis of the family Cylindrocorporidae and establishment of Longibuccidae n. fam. (Diplogastroidea: Nematoda). Nematology 5 (2): 183-190.

[RK91] Royce, L. A., & G. W. Krantz. 1991. A new rearing method for nematophagous mites. In Dusbábek, F. & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 2 pp. 619-622. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.