Monhysteroidea

Monhysteroidea

[‚män ‚hi·stə′rȯid·ē·ə]

(invertebrate zoology)

A superfamily of free-living nematodes in the order Monhysterida characterized by single or paired outstretched ovaries, circular to cryptospiral amphids, and a stoma which is usually shallow and unarmed.

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