Genus Acrobeloides
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ORDER RHABDITIDA
INFRAORDER CEPHALOBOMORPHA
Family Cephalobidae
Genus Acrobeloides
Genus Acrobeloides Cobb, 1924
"Body length highly variable (0.3-1.2mm). Lateral field with three to five incisures. Lips varying from rounded to distinct lobe-like or apiculate plates. Labial probolae not furcate, of variable shape: low rounded, or conical rounded, or conical pointed. Pharyngeal corpus usually with elongate spindle -like swelling. Tail usually conoid-rounded. Males rare." Bert and Borgonie, 2006
References:
Nguyen, Khuong B. 2006. Nematology website in the University of Florida.
Bert, W. and G. Borgonie. Order Rhabditida: Suborder Tylenchina. 2006. In: Eyualem Abebe, Traunspurger W., and Andrassy I. (eds) Freshwater Nematodes: Ecology and Taxonomy. CABI Publishing, Cambridge, MA, pp. 648-695