Diploscapter
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Chromadorea |
| Order: | Rhabditida |
| Family: | Rhabditidae |
| Genus: | Diploscapter Cobb, 1913[1] |
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Diploscapter is a genus of nematodes in the family Rhabditidae.
Phylogenetic studies
[edit]The genus Diploscapter groups with the genera Protorhabditis and Prodontorhabditis to form the 'Protorhabditis' group, the sister group of the Caenorhabditis species, all included in the 'Eurhabditis' group of Rhabditidae genera.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ New nematode genera found inhabiting fresh water and non-brackish soils. NA Cobb, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 1913, 3, 442 (Jstor stable URL)
- ^ The phylogenetic relationships of Caenorhabditis and other rhabditids. Karin Kiontke and David H. A. Fitch, Wormbook, 2005, doi:10.1895/wormbook.1.11.1
- Potential role of Diploscapter sp. strain LKC25, a bacterivorous nematode from soil, as a vector of food-borne pathogenic bacteria to preharvest fruits and vegetables. DS Gibbs, GL Anderson, LR Beuchat, LK Carta… - Applied and environmental …, 2005
- Diploscapter coronata as a facultative parasite of man, with a general review of vertebrate parasitism by rhabditoid worms. AC Chandler - Parasitology, 1938
- Postembryonic development and reproduction in Diploscapter coronata (Nematoda: Rhabditidae). HC HECHLER - Proceedings of the helminthological Society of …, 1968
External links
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