An aberrant nematode, Baldwinema n. gen. (Nematoda: Panagrolaimomorpha: Panagrolaimidae), from Iran with description of three new species

Nematology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 877-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Atighi ◽  
Ebrahim Pourjam ◽  
Wim Bert ◽  
Majid Pedram ◽  
Razieh Ghaemi ◽  
...  

A new genus of Panagrolaimidae, together with three new species, is proposed based on morphological, morphometric and molecular studies. Baldwinema n. gen. is unique in the Tylenchina by a combination of the following characters: having valvular median bulb, no valve in terminal pharyngeal bulb and absence of stylet. It is further characterised by cylindrical body, thin and finely annulated cuticle, lateral field with two lines (forming a single plain band), fused lips, small longitudinal amphidial openings located on lateral lips, lip region without labial probolae, with six inner and six outer labial and four cephalic papillae (as seen using SEM images), stoma aberrant, cheilostom and gymnostom of equal length, cheilostom with thin wall, gymnostom with clear and thick wall, and stegostom beginning with a tubular thin wall and ending with a thicker wall. Baldwinema ilamense n. gen., n. sp., the type, is characterised by its short post-vulval uterine sac of 7.7 (6.0-9.0) μm long, female tail length of 147 (120-175) μm, shape of gubernaculum, and arrangement of male genital papillae; B. ardabilense n. gen., n. sp. by its short post-vulval uterine sac of 11.5 (9.0-15.0) μm, female tail length of 150 (136-169) μm, shape of gubernaculum, and arrangement of male genital papillae; and B. golestanense n. gen., n. sp. by its long post-vulval uterine sac of 16 (13-21) μm, female tail length of 200 (174-220) μm, shape of gubernaculum, and arrangement of male genital papillae. Phylogenetic analyses based on sequences of the small subunit (SSU) ribosomal RNA gene showed that the new genus is nested within the Panagrolaimidae. However, LSU data did not demonstrate monophyly of the Panagrolaimidae.

Nematology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 1045-1056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Razieh Ghaemi ◽  
Ebrahim Pourjam ◽  
Sergio Álvarez-Ortega ◽  
Majid Pedram ◽  
Mohammad Reza Atighi

Diploscapteroides persicus n. sp. is described and illustrated based on morphological, morphometric and molecular data. The new species is mainly characterised by female body length of 469-673 μm, female tail length of 51-99 μm, shape of gubernaculum and spicules and arrangement of male genital papillae. Also, the arrangement of male genital papillae of the new species shows the presence of precloacal papillae, a feature that has not been previously described for the genus. The new species is comparable with all valid species of the genus, namely D. boettgeri, D. brevicauda, D. chitinolabiatus, D. coroniger, D. dacchensis and D. flexuosus, from which the morphological comparisons of the new species with aforementioned species are discussed. Phylogenetic analyses using partial sequences of SSU and LSU rRNA genes were performed for the new species, being the first representative of the genus to be phylogenetically studied using both Bayesian inference (BI) and maximum likelihood (ML) methods, and revealed that D. persicus n. sp. formed a clade with a species of Cephaloboides.


Nematology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 957-1005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natsumi Kanzaki ◽  
Taisuke Ekino ◽  
Tatsuya Ide ◽  
Hayato Masuya ◽  
Yousuke Degawa

Summary Three parasitaphelenchid species, Parasitaphelenchus frontalis n. sp., P. costati n. sp. and Bursaphelenchus hirsutae n. sp., are described. Parasitaphelenchus frontalis n. sp. was isolated from the body cavity of Scolytus frontalis emerging from dead logs of Zelkova serrata collected from Kanagawa, Japan, and characterised by its four-lined lateral field in the adults and dome-shaped lip region of the parasitic juveniles. Whereas the two first-mentioned species were isolated from Alniphagus costatus, B. hirsutae n. sp. emerged from dead logs of Alnus hirsuta collected from Nagano, Japan. Parasitaphelenchus costati n. sp. and B. hirsutae n. sp. were recovered from the body cavity and the underside of the elytra of their host/carrier beetle, respectively. Parasitaphelenchus costati n. sp. is characterised by its three-lined lateral field in adults and the presence of a ventrally-directed hook on the lip region of the parasitic juvenile. Bursaphelenchus hirsutae n. sp. belongs to the eggersi group of the genus and is characterised by its three-lined lateral field, dorsally truncate condylus and pointed rostrum of males, and long, smoothly tapering and strongly ventrally recurved, female tail. Molecular characterisation is provided for all three new species and their phylogenys discussed.


Nematology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 639-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birger Neuhaus ◽  
Elena Ivanova

AbstractThe Iponematinae is revised based on the morphological analysis of known and newly described species. Globocephalonema is restored to accommodate three former Iponema species: G. krishnanii, G. hyderabadense and G. timmae. Emended generic diagnoses and keys for species identification are proposed. Three new species, Filiponema javanicum sp. n., F. cylindropharyngatum sp. n. and Tonoscolecinema awakubianum sp. n., parasitic in earthworms deposited in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, are described and illustrated. Filiponema javanicum sp. n. is closest to F. sarmathicum but is distinguished by its smaller amphids, a cylindroid vs clavate pharynx, the absence of genital sensilla with rounded bases and short bristle in the centre, the lack of somatic sensilla in males, and a differently shaped gubernaculum. From the other three species of the genus, it clearly differs by a rounded vs pointed tail in both sexes. Filiponema cylindropharyngatum sp. n. differs from its congeners by the uniquely short and slim pharynx and fewer eggs with more elongated, finely tuberculate vs smooth, ovoid eggshells. Tonoscolecinema awakubianum sp. n. differs by the presence of a pre-corpal bulb-like pharyngeal swelling, a glandular pharyngeal bulb, a gradually tapering vs conical female tail and cuticularised rectum in females.


Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3437 (1) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHUN–LING XU ◽  
HUI XIE ◽  
CHUAN–BO ZHAO ◽  
SONG–BAI ZHANG ◽  
XIU–MIN SU

The genus Scutylenchus Jairajpuri 1971 (Nematoda: Tylenchida) is reviewed, and a compendium of the most importantdiagnostic characters with a key to the species are given. A new species, Scutylenchus dongtingensis n. sp., is describedfrom China, extracted from rhizosphere soil around grass near Dongting Lake in Hunan province. The new species ischaracterized by having body cuticle with 16–20 longitudinal striae forming blocks; lateral field with 6 incisures forming5 bands without areolation or any other decoration; a slightly offset head with 7 striae; slender stylet 22–25μm long, withcone about three fifths of stylet length; excretory pore inconspicuous under light microscope, located in region of anteriorpart of gland bulb in lateral view; female vulva slit transverse with small epiptygma in lateral view; conspicuous dot-likephasmid located at about one third of tail length posterior to anus; female tail subcylindrical, terminus round, annulated,terminal cuticle thickened; spicule slender, well developed, 27–32μm long, usually not protruded from cloaca;gubernaculum crescent-shaped, may be protruded from cloaca; bursa conspicuous, extending over tail terminus in ventral view.


Nematology ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reyes Peña-Santiago ◽  
Joaquín Abolafia

AbstractFive known and one new species of the genus Chiloplacus Thorne, 1937 are studied from natural ecosystems in the SE Iberian Peninsula: C.demani (Thorne, 1925) Thorne, 1937, C. maginensis sp. n., C. minimus (Thorne, 1925) Andrássy, 1959, C. magnus Rashid & Heyns, 1990, C. tenuis Rashid & Heyns, 1990 and C. trilineatus Steiner, 1940. Chiloplacus maginensis sp. n. is characterised by a female body length of 272-345 μm, lateral field starting far anterior near the labial region and with five incisures, lip region with bifurcate labial probolae bearing short prongs, pharyngeal corpus 2.5-3.6 times isthmus length, ovary without flexures posterior to vulva, spermatheca 8-17 μm long, postuterine sac 0.2-0.5 of corresponding body diam. long, female tail conical with rounded terminus (12-20 μm; c´ = 15.0-26.6; c′ = 1.1-1.5), phasmid at 39-48% of tail length. Descriptions, measurements and illustrations, including SEM photographs, are provided for the six species recorded. The diagnosis of Chiloplacus is emended, the nominal species listed and a key provided to those nominal species currently regarded as valid.


Parasite ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Scott C. Cutmore ◽  
Thomas H. Cribb

A new genus and three new species of blood flukes (Aporocotylidae) are described from squirrelfishes (Holocentridae) from the Great Barrier Reef. Holocentricola rufus n. gen., n. sp. is described from Sargocentron rubrum (Forsskål), from off Heron Island, southern Great Barrier Reef, and Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Holocentricola exilis n. sp. and Holocentricola coronatus n. sp. are described from off Lizard Island, H. exilis from Neoniphon sammara (Forsskål) and H. coronatus from Sargocentron diadema (Lacepède). Species of the new genus are distinct from those of all other aporocotylid genera in having a retort-shaped cirrus-sac with a distinct thickening at a marginal male genital pore. The new genus is further distinct in the combination of a lanceolate body, X-shaped caeca, posterior caeca that are longer than anterior caeca, a single, post-caecal testis that is not deeply lobed, a post-caecal, post-testis ovary that is not distinctly bi-lobed, and a post-ovarian uterus. The three new species can be morphologically delineated based on the size and row structure of the marginal spines, as well by total length, oesophagus and caecal lengths, and the position of the male genital pore, testes and ovary relative to the posterior extremity. The three species of Holocentricola are genetically distinct from each other based on cox1 mtDNA and ITS2 rDNA data, and in phylogenetic analyses of 28S rDNA form a well-supported clade sister to species of Neoparacardicola Yamaguti, 1970. This is the first report of aporocotylids from fishes of the family Holocentridae and the order Holocentriformes.


Nematology ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Holovachov ◽  
Sven Boström

AbstractFive species of the subfamily Acrolobinae, viz. Panagrolobus vanmegenae gen. n., sp. n., Teratolobus regulus Andrássy, 1968, T. obscurus sp. n., T. hamatus (Andrássy, 1986) comb. n. and T. similis sp. n., are described and illustrated from material collected in The Netherlands, Ukraine, Costa Rica, Mexico, Australia and South Africa. The new genus is characterised by a crown-shaped labial region with six well-developed, leaf-like lips having a biradial symmetry; lips separated by narrow and internally sclerotised U-shaped clefts; lateral lips half as wide as the subdorsal and subventral ones; a broad anisomorphic stoma; strongly sclerotised, hookshaped, cheilorhabdia; a strongly developed dorsal prostegorhabdion extending inside the stegostom cavity; a conoid tail with a rounded terminus bearing a dorsally curved, hook-like, mucro; and phasmids located at 70-90% of tail length. Teratolobus obscurus sp. n. is distinguished from the closely related T. regulus by the following characters: a smaller spermatheca (7.0-14.5 vs 26-61 μm); a shorter PUB (12-19 vs 18-42 μm); a shorter female tail (42-50 vs 55-72 μm); and differently shaped mucro on the tail terminus (harpoon-like vs hook-like). Teratolobus similis sp. n. is distinguished from the closely related T. baloghi (Andrássy, 1986) comb. n. by the following characters: a smaller body (350-420 vs 470-480 μm); a shorter PUB (9-12 vs 35-38 μm; 0.5-0.8 vs ca. 2 VBD long); shorter female tail (41-53 vs 62-65 μm; c′ = 3.4-5.4 vs 6.5-7.0); and differently shaped mucro on the tail terminus (arrowhead-like vs finely forked). Based on current research, a revision is proposed of the taxonomy of the genus Teratolobus and the subfamily Acrolobinae. The following new combinations are proposed: Teratolobus baloghi; T. hamatus; and T. occultus (De Ley & Coomans, 1990) comb. n. Panagroteratus is proposed as a synonym of Teratolobus.


Nematology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehrab Esmaeili ◽  
Ramin Heydari ◽  
Pablo Castillo ◽  
Juan E. Palomares-Rius

A new species of the genusDitylenchus,D.persicusn. sp., was collected around the roots of grapevine and is described and illustrated herein based on morphological and molecular studies. The new species is characterised by a body length of 783 (635-928) μm and 689 (670-715)μm in female and male, respectively, delicate stylet 6.2 (5.0-7.0)μm long, six lines in the lateral field, median bulb of pharynx well developed, muscular with crescentic valve, basal pharyngeal bulb pyriform with 10 (8-13)μm long stem extending into intestine, post-vulval uterine sac relatively short, 16 (14-18)μm long, female and male tail elongate-conoid with finely rounded terminus, and bursa covering 65-80% of male tail length. Morphologically,D.persicusn. sp. appears closer to five known species of the genus, namely:D.arachis,D.caudatus,D.clarus,D.myceliophagusandD. nanus. The results of phylogenetic analyses based on sequences of D2-D3 expansion region of 28S rRNA, ITS and partial 18S rRNA genes confirmed the close molecular relationship betweenD.persicusn. sp. and otherDitylenchusspecies such asD. myceliophagus,D. africanus,D. arachis,D. destructorandD. halictus.


Nematology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehrab Esmaeli ◽  
Ramin Heydari ◽  
Pablo Castillo ◽  
Juan E. Palomares-Rius

A new species of the genus Nothotylenchus, N. persicus n. sp. was collected around the roots of grapevine and is described and illustrated herein based on morphological and molecular studies. The new species is characterised by a body length of 776-900 μm, delicate stylet 5-6 μm long, six lines in the lateral field, post-vulval uterine sac short, 10-18 μm long, female tail elongate-conoid with pointed terminus, and bursa covering 40-45% of tail length. Morphologically, N. persicus n. sp. appears closer to four known species of the genus, namely: N. hexaglyphus, N. affinis, N. medians and N. taylori. The results of phylogenetic analyses based on sequences of D2-D3 expansion region of 28S rRNA gene confirmed the close molecular relationship between N. persicus n. sp. and other anguinids, but Nothotylenchus claded separately from Ditylenchus species.


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