Diploscapter

{{Short description|Genus of roundworms}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Diploscapter | authority = Cobb, 1913<ref>New nematode genera found inhabiting fresh water and non-brackish soils. NA Cobb, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 1913, 3, 442 ([https://www.jstor.org/stable/24521063 Jstor stable URL])</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * ''Diploscapter bicornis'' * ''Diploscapter coronata'' <small>(Cobb, 1893)</small> syn. ''Rhabditis coronata'' Cobb, 1893 - type * ''Diploscapter lycostoma'' * ''Diploscapter pachys'' }}

'''''Diploscapter''''' is a genus of nematodes in the family Rhabditidae.

== Phylogenetic studies == The genus ''Diploscapter'' groups with the genera ''Protorhabditis'' and ''Prodontorhabditis'' to form the 'Protorhabditis' group, the sister group of the ''Caenorhabditis'' species, all included in the 'Eurhabditis' group of Rhabditidae genera.<ref>The phylogenetic relationships of ''Caenorhabditis'' and other rhabditids. Karin Kiontke and David H. A. Fitch, Wormbook, 2005, {{ doi|10.1895/wormbook.1.11.1}}</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}} * Potential role of Diploscapter sp. strain LKC25, a bacterivorous nematode from soil, as a vector of food-borne pathogenic bacteria to preharvest fruits and vegetables. DS Gibbs, GL Anderson, LR Beuchat, LK Carta... - Applied and environmental ..., 2005 * Diploscapter coronata as a facultative parasite of man, with a general review of vertebrate parasitism by rhabditoid worms. AC Chandler - Parasitology, 1938 * Postembryonic development and reproduction in Diploscapter coronata (Nematoda: Rhabditidae). HC HECHLER - Proceedings of the helminthological Society of ..., 1968

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Category:Rhabditidae Category:Rhabditida genera