Dorylaimopsinae De Coninck, 1965

Fu, Sujing, Leduc, Daniel, Rao, Yiyong & Cai, Lizhe, 2019, Three new free-living marine nematode species of Dorylaimopsis (Nematoda Araeolaimida: Comesomatidae) from the South China Sea and the Chukchi Sea, Zootaxa 4608 (3), pp. 433-450 : 434

Subfamily Dorylaimopsinae De Coninck, 1965

Type genus: Dorylaimopsis Ditlevsen, 1918

Diagnosis (from Fonseca & Bezerra 2014). Cuticle usually differentiated laterally. Cephalic sense organs in three distinctly separated crowns. Buccal cavity usually strongly cuticularized; anterior portion shallow, sometimes with small pointed projections at border to the vestibulum; posterior portion dilated, cylindrical or conical, usually with strongly cuticularized walls and three thorn-like projections at the border between the two portions. Spicules sometimes differentiated proximally, medially or distally. Gubernacular apophyses usually directed caudally, occasionally dorsocaudally.