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  Superfamily Tylencholaimoidea

Family Tylencholaimidae

    Subfamily Tylencholaiminae -- North America.
    Subfamily Metadorylaiminae
    Subfamily Vanderlindiinae

Taxon Information

The Family Tylencholaimidae has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from North America.

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

Literature Records

• Tylencholaimidae, "Terrestrial or freshwater aquatic and one species estaurine, plant-root feeding or omnivorous" (Hodda, 2011).
• Tylencholaimidae, (De Ley et al., 2006).
• Tylencholaimidae, (Smith, 2001).
• Tylencholaiminae, "Usually in soil about plant roots, rarely found in fresh water" (Chitwood & Allen, 1959).

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]
• De Ley, P., W. Decraemer & Eualem-Abebe. 2006. Introduction: Summary of present knowledge and research addressing the ecology and taxonomy of freshwater nematodes. [in] Eualem-Abebe et al. (eds.). Freshwater Nematodes: Ecology and Taxonomy: 3-30.
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Nematoda (Roundworms). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 191-215.
• Chitwood, B.G. & M.W. Allen. 1959. Nemata. [in] W.T. Edmondson (ed.). Ward & Whipple Fresh-Water Biology, 2nd edition: 368-401.

Web Pages

• Synopsis of the Described Nematoda of the World
• WikiSpecies