Study of mononchids from Iran, with description of Mylonchulus kermaniensis sp. n. (Nematoda: Mononchida)

Zootaxa ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 3599 (6) ◽  
pp. 519-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
EBRAHIM SHOKOOHI ◽  
ABDOLRAHMAN MEHRABI-NASAB ◽  
MAHDIEH MIRZAEI ◽  
VLADA PENEVA

During a survey of soil nematodes in Iran, three species of predatory nematodes, including a new species of the genus Mylonchulus Cobb, 1916 were recovered. Mylonchulus kermaniensis sp. n. is characterised by its body length (1.2–1.4 mm), six rows of rasp-like denticles, the sixth line consisting of four denticles, female tail slightly sigmoid, sharply bent ventrad with digitate posterior portion slightly but clearly bent dorsad, (37–49 μm long, c=27.9–38.9, c'=1.2–1.7) with a terminal opening of spinneret. Two advulval papillae present, one is pre-vulval and the other one is located posterior to vulva. Furthermore, two other mononchid species namely M. cf. hawaiiensis (Cassidy, 1931) Goodey, 1951 and Mononchus truncatus Bastian, 1865 were also recovered from soil in the province of Kerman, Iran, the former representing a new geographical record for Iran. Measurements and illustration are provided for these three species. Molecular study of 18S rDNA region of M. cf. hawaiiensis demonstrated that the Iranian population compared with the nearest populations identified as M. hawaiiensis from Japan, shows 5 to 8 nucleotide differences. In addition, phylogeny of Mylonchulus is discussed and a checklist of the species of Mononchida from Iran is provided.

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4399 (2) ◽  
pp. 197 ◽  
Author(s):  
EBRAHIM SHOKOOHI ◽  
FAHIME IRANPOUR ◽  
VLADA PENEVA ◽  
MILKA ELSHISHKA ◽  
HENDRIKA FOURIE ◽  
...  

During a survey of soil nematodes in Iran, a new species of Ditylenchus Filipjev, 1936 was discovered. Ditylenchus sarvarae sp. n. is characterised by its body length (1.0–1.4 mm), lateral field with seven incisures and without areolation, long postuterine sac (1.8–2.8 times the corresponding body diameter) and conical female tail with pointed tip (68–89 μm long, c = 13.7–18.2, c' = 4.2–5.1). Male specimens have conical tails (64–70 μm long, c = 14.5–16.7, c' = 4.0–4.5), spicules (22–26 μm long) and gubernaculum (8–10 μm long). Measurements and illustrations are provided for this new species. A molecular study of the 28S rDNA region of D. sarvarae sp. n. demonstrates that the Iranian species belongs to a separate group compared with the other molecularly characterized species of genus Ditylenchus. 


Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 988 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIANFENG GU ◽  
JIANCHENG ZHANG ◽  
HELEN BRAASCH ◽  
WOLFGANG BURGERMEISTER

Bursaphelenchus singaporensis sp. n. isolated in China from packaging wood of deciduous trees, imported from Singapore is described and illustrated. This new species clearly belongs to the B. xylophilus group, having males with the typically shaped spicules with a cucullus at their distal extremity, the typical position and number of caudal papillae (three pairs and one single) and the anterior vulval lip of the females developed as a distinct flap. The new species is characterized by a body length of 792 (553–950) µm and 850 (690–961) µm of males and females, respectively, robust body (a= 34 and 31, resp.), 15–16 µm-long stylet, lateral field with four lines, long postuterine branch (averaging 102 µm) and a strongly conoid female tail (c= 20) with a finely rounded, only slightly ventrally-bent terminus, male with very strong spicules (41–48 µm long), distinct rostrum and small cucullus, and a dorso-ventral visible terminal bursa. Bursaphelenchus singaporensis sp. n. is closely related to other species of the B. xylophilus group (B. xylophilus, B. mucronatus, B. kolymensis, B. fraudulentus, B. conicaudatus, B. baujardi and B. luxuriosae) and similar to B. abruptus. The morphological differentiation is mainly based on the shape of the female tail. However, B. singaporensis sp. n. differs from all other species of the B. xylophilus group by larger spicules. The new species can be differentiated from B. abruptus, B. xylophilus, B. mucronatus, B. fraudulentus, B. conicaudatus and B. luxuriosae by means of ITS-RFLP patterns.


Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3407 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
NEGIN AMIRZADI ◽  
EBRAHIM SHOKOOHI ◽  
ALI ESKANDARI ◽  
JOAQUÍN ABOLAFIA

A new species of the genus Acrolobus was recovered during a survey of soil nematodes. Acrolobus longigubernaculumsp. n., collected from the rhizosphere of weeds in northeastern Iran, is described and illustrated. It is characterized by abody length of 0.72–0.98 mm in females and 0.73–0.84 mm in males, annulated cuticle, lateral fields with three longitu-dinal incisures, lip region slightly offset from the neck and 8–11μm wide, lips leaf-like, stoma 12–16 µm long, pharyngealcorpus 2.7–3.2 times isthmus length, vulva located slightly posterior to middle of body (V = 61–65), spermatheca 26–46µm long, postuterine sac 27–49 µm long or 0.9–1.3 times the corresponding body diameter, female tail conical with a fine,short mucro (47–58 µm, c = 13.9–18.5, c’ = 2.4–3.2), male tail conical bearing a fine mucro (47–50 µm, c = 14.8–17.5;c’ = 2–2.3), spicules 26–30μm long and ventrally curved, and gubernaculum 12–16 µm long (50% of spicule length). The new taxon is the second species of the genus Acrolobus and is compared to the type species, A. emarginatus.


Nematology ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-508
Author(s):  
Joaquín Abolafia ◽  
Reyes Peña-Santiago

AbstractA new species of the genus Cephalobus is described from natural areas in the south-eastern Iberian Peninsula. Cephalobus harpagonis sp. n. is characterised by female body length of 0.38-0.47 mm, lips amalgamated in pairs, labial probolae present as low ridges connecting tips of adjacent lips, ovary lacking flexures, spermatheca 11-12 μm long, postuterine sac very short (0.3-0.4 times corresponding body diam.), female tail conical or subcylindrical (22-31 μm, c = 13.2-17.1, c′ = 1.7-2.5) and ending in a tuberculate, often harpoon-like, mucro. Descriptions, measurements and illustrations, including SEM photographs, are also provided for C. persegnis and C. troglophilus from Spain. An identification key to Cephalobus species and a compendium of their measurements are also provided.


Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4258 (6) ◽  
pp. 525 ◽  
Author(s):  
TAKAKI KURITA ◽  
KANTO NISHIKAWA ◽  
MASAFUMI MATSUI ◽  
TSUTOMU HIKIDA

A new species of Asian rock gecko, genus Cnemaspis, is described from Padawan, western Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. The new species forms a clade with C. paripari and C. nigridia of the C. nigridia group in a mitochondrial DNA phylogeny and is similar to them morphologically in some characters such as caudal scalation. It differs from the other Asian Cnemaspis species in its unique combination of snout–vent length (up to 62.7 mm), 4–9 precloacal pores in males, keeled subcaudals with an enlarged, smooth, median row, presence of ventrolateral caudal tubercles, and coloration (head and upper flanks dark-yellow; anterior portion of tail black; posterior portion of tail white with black, paravertebral blob). Phylogenetic relationships within the C. nigridia group and the distributional ranges of species within the group suggest allopatric speciation by geographic isolation.


Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2491 (1) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS M. ILIFFE ◽  
TINA OTTEN ◽  
STEFAN KOENEMANN

Godzilliognomus schrami, a new species of the crustacean class Remipedia, Yager, 1981 is the second species assigned to the genus. The new species, with an average body length of 6.8 mm, was collected from an anchialine cave on the Bahamian island of Eleuthera. Godzilliognomus schrami can be distinguished from the other species in the genus, Godzilliognomus frondosus Yager, 1989 by narrower and less trapezoidal tergites, frontal filaments that differ regarding the shape and insertion of the medial process, and dorsal antennular rami composed of only ten segments.


2001 ◽  
Vol 38 (10) ◽  
pp. 1423-1438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B Holmes ◽  
Catherine Forster ◽  
Michael Ryan ◽  
Kieran M Shepherd

Chasmosaurus irvinensis (sp. nov.) is distinguished from other species of this genus by the possession of a broad snout, absence of a brow horn (the position of which is occupied by a pit or rugosities suggestive of bone resorption), broadly rounded and open jugal notch, subrectangular squamosal, straight posterior parietal bar bearing 10 epoccipitals, eight of which are flattened, strongly curved anterodorsally, and nearly indistinguishably coossified to their neighbours, and small, transversely oriented parietal fenestrae restricted to the posterior portion of the frill. This species, restricted to the upper part of the Dinosaur Park Formation, is significantly younger than the other recognized Canadian Chasmosaurus species, C. belli and C. russelli. Phylogenetic analysis shows that C. irvinensis is most closely related to the other Canadian Chasmosaurus species and more distantly related to Chasmosaurus mariscalensis from Texas.


2007 ◽  
Vol 47 (15) ◽  
pp. 181-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Fernanda Achinelly ◽  
Nora B. Camino

Blatticola cristovata n. sp. (Oxyurida, Thelastomatidae) a parasite of the cricket Anurogryllus muticus (De Geer, 1773) (Orthoptera, Gryllidae) from Argentina, is described and illustrated. This is the first species of the genus Blatticola found parasitizing cricket. This new species is characterized in females by having the cuticle annulated through the body length, the mouth opening is subtriangular and surrounded by eight cephalic papillae, the stoma is short with three pairs placed in two rows of cuticular sclerotised plates, amphids in small pore shaped, oesophagus is divided into three parts, anterior cylindrical corpus, isthmus distinct, and basal bulb valved, the nerve ring is situated around the middle of corpus, the intestine is wide broad anteriorly, oval eggs, smooth shell, with a straight side, and the other side with a band running longitudinally. Males with one pair of preanal, one pair of adanal and two pairs of postanal papillae, and the tail appendage short, conical and pointed.


ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 792 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen-Jia Wu ◽  
Lu Yu ◽  
Hui Xie ◽  
Chun-Ling Xu ◽  
Jiao Yu ◽  
...  

A new species, Tylencholaimushelanensissp. n., extracted from the rhizosphere soil of unidentified grasses from Helan Mountain, Inner Mongolia, China was identified. The new species is characterized by having a body length of 0.93–1.07 mm with the lip region approximately one-quarter of the body diameter at the posterior end of the neck region wide; female didelphic-amphidelphic; pars proximalis vaginae violin-shaped. Males were not found. SEM observations of the new species were made and a phylogenetic analysis of both the 18S rDNA and the D2-D3 region of 28S rDNA is presented.


Nematology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Álvarez-Ortega ◽  
Sergei A. Subbotin ◽  
Reyes Peña-Santiago

Several species of Aporcelaimellus collected in natural areas in California, USA, are characterised on the basis of morphological, morphometric and molecular data. Two new species are identified and described here. Aporcelaimellus californicus sp. n. is characterised by its body length of 2.46-3.42 mm, lip region offset by constriction and 24-26 μm broad, odontostyle 23-24 μm long, neck 611-765 μm long, pharyngeal expansion occupying 50-52% of total neck length, a dorsal cellular mass present at level of cardia, uterus simple and 246-408 μm long, V = 53-58, short conoid tail (43-50 μm, c = 56-71, c′ = 0.8-1.0) with a large hyaline portion occupying more than half of its total length, spicules 98 μm long, and 8-9 spaced ventromedian supplements. Aporcelaimellus salicinus sp. n. is distinguished by its body length of 1.45-1.94 mm, lip region offset by deep constriction and 16-18 μm broad, odontostyle 18-20 μm long, neck 393-521 μm long, pharyngeal expansion occupying 45-51% of total neck length, presence of a dorsal cellular mass at level of cardia, uterus simple and 21-45 μm long, V = 51-57, tail conical to conoid (31-38 μm, c = 39-59, c′ = 1.0-1.4), and male unknown. Measurements, sequences and taxonomic comments are provided for the other three Aporcelaimellus species. Californian Aporcelaimellus display a notable morphological homogeneity but a remarkable molecular diversity, putting into question the monophyly of this group.


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