Description of Boleodorus Bushehrensis n. Sp. (Rhabditida: Tylenchidae) from Southern Iran, and Observations on a Commonly Known Species.

ABSTRACT: A new species of the genus Boleodorus, recovered from southern Iran, is described and illustrated based upon morphological and molecular data. B. bushehrensis n. sp. is mainly characterized by having a wide and low cephalic region (which is continuous with the adjacent body), the oral aperture in a depression in side view under a light microscope, four lines in the lateral field, weak metacorpus with a vestigial-to-invisible valve, and short (26-38 mm long) hooked tail with rounded tip. The females are 334-464 mm long and have a spherical spermatheca filled with spheroid sperm; males have 11.5- to 12.0-mm-long spicules and weakly developed bursa. The new species has an annulated low cephalic region, four large cephalic papillae, and small crescent-shaped amphidial openings wh

SUBMITTER: Monemi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9260831 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature