Genus Panagrolaimus

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ORDER RHABDITIDA
INFRAORDER PANAGROLAIMOMORPHA
Family Panagrolaimidae
Genus Panagrolaimus

Genus Panagrolaimus
Fuchs, 1930
Synonym: Neocephalobus Steiner, 1929 (Steiner, 1934)
                   Cephalobus (Neocephalobus) Steiner, 1929
                     Procepalobus Steiner, 1934
                   Panagrodontus Thorne, 1937
                   Panagrolaimodies Ivanova, 1958
“Definition: Panagrolaiminae. 3 or 6 lips, amalgamated or more or less separate; 2 circlets of lip papillae present. Cheilostom rounded triangular, almost hexagonal in section; its rhabdions usually absent. When present they are hexagonal in section. Metastom usually with a tooth or teeth on dorsal segment and sometimes denticles on subventral segments. Oesophagus panagrolaimoid; anterior part cylindrical, isthmus shorter than anterior part. Gonads panagrolaimoid, the ovary tip being reflexed past the vulva almost as far as the anus. Post-vulval sac about a body-width long.” From Goodey 1963 and Powers and Mullin website http://nematode.unl.edu/