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  Superfamily Tylenchoidea

Family Rotylenchulidae

    Genus Rotylenchulus

Taxon Information

The Family Rotylenchulidae is not recorded from fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

  • Rotylenchulidae, "Terrestrial, feed mostly externally on plant roots but may partially enter the root. Some cause economic damage, but some are not regarded as economic pests" (Hodda, 2011).

Bibliography

  • Hodda, M. 2011. Phylum Nematoda Cobb 1932. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 63-95. [Available online]

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