Mononchus - a voracious predatory nematode

Abstract

In the study of several kinds of Mononchus it was verified that they live on worms and protozoa. In the two specimens found in São Paulo, one in a kitchen-garden, and the other in a pot of an ornamental plant, both of them as examples of its predaceous character, a nematode of regular size was seen in the male bowel. In the female bowel there were found three bodies, two of them looking like amoeba, and the third one resembling a nema tail. Unfortunately, the author has not a complete literature concerning the Mononchus to identify these species.