Howard Ferris Publications

Howard Ferris

Department of Nematology
University of California
Davis, CA 95617

Email: hferris@ucdavis.edu

Link: http://plpnemweb.ucdavis.edu/nemaplex/FerrisPublications/PubMenu.htm

Polar Worms May Warn of Global Warming, Experts Say

(A story from National Geographic News. We hope you enjoy it.)
In the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, worms are the most sophisticated life-forms around.
The valleys are so cold, arid and bleak that they are used to simulate conditions on Mars. No plants, birds or insects survive there. But beneath the rocky, frozen polar soil dwell microscopic worms called nematodes that may be harbingers of the effects of climate change throughout the world. ................
LINK: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/09/0912_030912_tvmcmurdo.html

Description of two species of Mononchoides

Nematodes of the order Rhabditida from India. Description of two
species of Mononchoides (Nematoda: Diplogastrina)

M. MAHAMOOD AND I. AHMAD*

Section of Nematology, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University,
Aligarh – 202 002, India.
e-mail: ahmadirfi @yahoo.co.in

Summary- A new and a known species of the genus Mononchoides Rahm, 1928 are described and illustrated. M. megaonchus sp. n., collected from decaying banana rhizome, is characterized by a large dorsal tooth, long stoma, and absence of tooth, teeth or denticles on the subventral walls in general. Males have stout spicules and a gubernaculum with distal sleeve and nine pairs of genital papillae arranged in typical diplogastrid pattern: three precloacal and six postcloacal. Another species which shares several common characters with M. striatus (Bütschli, 1876) Goodey, 1963 is also being reported from India.
Key words: India, Mononchoides, morphology, new species, occurrence, taxonomy.

LINK: http://www.scribd.com/doc/13660712/Description-of-two-new-species-of-Mononchoides-M-megaonchus-Md-Mahamood

Nematodes of the order Rhabditida from India.

Nematodes of the order Rhabditida from India. Description of
Sclerorhabditis tridentatus gen. n., sp. n. (Nematoda: Rhabditidae)

Irfan AHMAD, Ali Asghar SHAH and Mohammad MAHAMOOD
Section of Nematology, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, India

LINK-
http://www.scribd.com/doc/12966273/Sclerorhabditis-Gen-n-Spn

Checklist of Nematode Species

BIOLOGY CATALOG

The Biology Catalog presents lists of genera [including synonyms] for all groups of organisms, both living and fossil.Some groups are World Species listings. The index pages show the number of genera and species in the groups. The lists are arranged in a hierarchal ordering for each group. Group Coordinators maintain the listings.


Links-

http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/

http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Nematoda/Family/rhabditidae.txt

http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Nematoda/Family/Diplogasteridae.txt