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Discotylenchus discretus Siddiqi 1980
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Description
Discotylenchus discretus Siddiqi, 1980
(Figs 4, 5)
Measurements. See Table 3.
This species was recovered from the rhizosphere of apple (Malus domestica L. Borkh.) trees in the city of Bojnourd, Northern Khorasan province, Iran, during July 2009. The morphological and morphometric characters (see Table 3) are in full agreement with those in original description. The Iranian population of D. discretus is characterized by having a smooth lip region, tapering to an offset, distinct labial disc, lateral field with four incisures, body length 0.54–0.60 mm, stylet 8–9 μm long, spermatheca round, filled with sperm and tail filiform, 102–112 μm long.
Notes
Published as part of Ghaemi, Razieh, Pourjam, Ebrahim, Atighi, Mohammad Reza, Pedram, Majid & Karssen, Gerrit, 2012, First record of the genus Discotylenchus Siddiqi, 1980 (Nematoda: Tylenchidae) from Iran, with description of one new and data on two known species, pp. 72-82 in Zootaxa 3493 on page 81, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.282451
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Siddiqi
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Nematoda
- Order
- Tylenchida
- Family
- Tylenchidae
- Genus
- Discotylenchus
- Species
- discretus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Discotylenchus discretus Siddiqi, 1980 sec. Ghaemi, Pourjam, Atighi, Pedram & Karssen, 2012
References
- Siddiqi, M. R. (1980) Two new nematode genera, Safianema (Anguinidae) and Discotylenchus (Tylenchidae), with descriptions of three new species. Proceedings of the helminthological Society of Washington, 47, 85 - 94.