Family Mononchidae

Revised 10/31/08

           
   
                
          
         
 Predaceous nematodes, microbivores as juveniles, predators as adults.

   

 

Globose stoma with a single large dorsal tooth.  No subventral fields of denticles.

Long, muscular, tubular esophagus.   

 

Click on thumbnail below for video of Mononchus feeding as a predator on other nematodes:

Video of Mononchus feeding

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