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Wilsonema

Wilsonema Cobb, 1913 (ref. ID; 3571)

Araeolaimida De Coninck & Stekhoven, 1933: Family Plectidae Orley, 1880: Subfamily Wilsonematinae Chitwood, 1951 (ref. ID; 3571)

Family Plectidae (ref. ID; 6182)

Family Wilsonematidae (ref. ID; 6740)

ref. ID; 1923

Head with branched lamellar expansions and cushions; 4 enclosed setae. (Semi-aquatic, saprozoic) (ref. ID; 1923)

ref. ID; 3571

Type species

Wilsonema capitatum Cobb, 1913 (ref. ID; 3571)

ref. ID; 6153, 6691

Bacterivores. (ref. ID; 6153, 6691)
  1. Wilsonema auriculatum (Butschli, 1873) (ref. ID; 2588)
  2. Wilsonema capitatum Cobb, 1913
    See; Wilsonema otophorum (ref. ID; 3571)
  3. Wilsonema cephalatum (Cobb, 1893) Cobb, 1913
    See; Tylocephalus cephalatus (ref. ID; 3571)
  4. Wilsonema fausti (Kreis, 1930) Goodey, 1951 (ref. ID; 3571)
    Syn; Plectus (Wilsonema) fausti Kreis, 1930 (ref. ID; 3571)
  5. Wilsonema otophorum (De Man, 1880) Cobb, 1913 (ref. ID; 3571) or (De Man, 1880) (ref. ID; 2588)
    Syn; Bitholinema schuurmansstekhoveni De Coninck, 1931 (ref. ID; 3571); Ereptonema inflatum Yeates, 1967 (ref. ID; 3571); Plectus otophorus De Man, 1880 (ref. ID; 3571); Wilsonema capitatum Cobb, 1913 (ref. ID; 3571)
  6. Wilsonema schuurmansstekhoveni (De Coninck, 1931)
    See; Wilsonema otophorum (ref. ID; 3571)
  7. Wilsonema tentaculatum (Fuchs, 1930)
    See; Tylocephalus tentaculatus (ref. ID; 3571)