Criconematidae Taylor, 1936

Gusakov, Vladimir A. & Gagarin, Vladimir G., 2017, An annotated checklist of the main representatives of meiobenthos from inland water bodies of Central and Southern Vietnam. I. Roundworms (Nematoda), Zootaxa 4300 (1), pp. 1-43 : 34

Family Criconematidae Taylor, 1936

123. Criconematidae gen. sp.— {55} (0, 0, 8, 0; 1)

Population structure and abundance. 7 females (3x10 3/m2).

Ecology and distribution. Criconematides are soil nematodes; some of the species are plant ectoparasites ( Andrássy 2007). As a rule occur in water bodies accidentally.

Remarks. Several species of various genera are known from Vietnam ( Nguyen & Nguyen 2005; Nguyen 2007). We failed to identify the specimens we sampled.