Nagelus

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Classification:

Rhabditida Tylenchina Tylenchoidea
Dolichodoridae
Telotylenchinae

          Nagelus (Thorne & Malek, 1968)

    Synonyms:
      None.

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Morphology and Anatomy:

SEM face view broadly oval, and laterally elongated, with labial disc partially or completely fused with first lip annule. Lip annule sectors also partially or completely fused together.

Amphid apertures between the first annule and labial disc. The remaining lip annules without longitudinal grooves or indentations.

Deirids present in the lateral field at a level where the field has six lines.

Tail irregularly conoid, with a distal hyaline part.

Male: Spicules without well-developed velum, cylindroid, blunt-ended.

Gubernaculum not protruding from cloaca.

[Ref: Fortuner & Luc (1987).]