Aphelenchoides
Genus of nematode worms
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Aphelenchoides is a genus of mycetophagous nematodes. Some species are plant pathogenic foliar nematodes.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Chromadorea |
| Order: | Rhabditida |
| Family: | Aphelenchoididae |
| Subfamily: | Aphelenchoidinae |
| Genus: | Aphelenchoides Fischer, 1894 |
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as of 2015 138 species,[1] including:
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Taxonomy
In 1961 Sanwal listed 33 species and provided a key.[3]
The most important species of these are Aphelenchoides ritzemabosi, the chrysanthemum foliar nematode; Aphelenchoides fragariae, the spring crimp or spring dwarf nematode of strawberry, which also attacks many ornamentals; and Aphelenchoides besseyi, causing summer crimp or dwarf of strawberry and white tip of rice.
Several species of this genus feed ectoparasitically and endoparasitically on aboveground plant parts.
