page_title: Adenophorea
hierarchical_section_title: Adenophorea
caption_attribution_description: English: Mononchidae eating a Mononchidae Français&#160;: Mononchidae mangeant un autre Mononchidae
context_page_description: Adenophorea or Aphasmidia was a class of nematodes. It has been by and large abandoned by modern taxonomy, because there is strong evidence for it being a motley paraphyletic group of unrelated lineages of roundworms.
  Characteristics supposed to distinguish Adenophorea are:
  amphids always post-labial, shape, pore-like to elaborate
  deirids are not seen
  phasmids are generally absent
  hypodermal glands present uninucleate
  simple non-tubular excretory system when present
  three caudal glands commonly opening through a spinneret at the tail tip
  male generally has two testes
  caudal alae are rare
  male with supplement glands in a single ventro-median row
  sensory papillae in cephalic region and along the body
  generally there are five esophageal glands
  marine, freshwater, terrestrial
  As it seems, a number of these traits are plesiomorphic, and thus unsuitable to discern relationships.
context_section_description: Adenophorea or Aphasmidia was a class of nematodes (roundworms). It has been by and large abandoned by modern taxonomy, because there is strong evidence for it being a motley paraphyletic group of unrelated lineages of roundworms.
  Characteristics supposed to distinguish Adenophorea are:
  amphids always post-labial,  shape, pore-like to elaborate
  deirids are not seen
  phasmids are generally absent
  hypodermal glands present (excretory?) uninucleate
  simple non-tubular excretory system when present
  three caudal glands commonly opening through a spinneret at the tail tip
  male generally has two testes
  caudal alae are rare
  male with supplement glands in a single ventro-median row
  sensory papillae in cephalic region and along the body
  generally there are five esophageal glands
  marine, freshwater, terrestrial
  As it seems, a number of these traits are plesiomorphic, and thus unsuitable to discern relationships.
caption: Mononchidae eating a Mononchidae
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