Afenestrata
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Tylenchida
Tylenchina
Tylenchoidea
Heteroderidae
Heteroderinae
Afenestrata (Baldwin
& Bell, 1985)
Synonyms:
Afrodera (Wouts, 1985)
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Females: Cyst stage present.
Body globose, with very short and thin neck, and pronounced terminal cone with hypertrophied vulval lips. Cuticle thin and irregularly annulated on neck; thick, with superficial lace-like pattern on rest of body; D-layer absent. No subcrystalline layer. Vulva terminal; vulval slit deeply sunken between vulval lips; fenestration, bullae, underbridge absent. Anus subterminal, on posterior side of cone. |
| Males: Body
twisted.
Lateral field with four lines. Spicules terminal, posteriorly directed, straight, distal extremity pointed; cloacal tube well developed. No phasmids. No tail. Juveniles: Stylet 20 µm long. Lateral field with four lines. Esophageal glands filling body cavity. Tail conical, pointed, with hyaline terminal portion half its length. Phasmids punctiform. [Ref: Luc, Maggenti & Fortuner, (1988).] |
Nurse cell system: A syncytium.
Ref: Luc, Maggenti & Fortuner, Rev. Nematol. 11(2):159-176 (1988).
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