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Classification:

Tylenchida
 Tylenchina
  Tylenchoidea
             Tylenchidae 
              Tylenchinae 
               Ecphyadophorinae 
               
 Lelenchus Andrassy, 1954
Synonyms: 
   Tylenchus (Lelenchus) Andrassy, 1954
As of 2016, there are four valid species of the genus Lelenchus. The genus is placed in the subfamily Ecphyadophorinae Skarbilovich, 1959 because of the dorso-ventrally flattened head, the very slender body and the elongate to sinuous amphidial slits which start from the oral plate and extend posteriorly on the lateral region of the head.  Of the described species, the type species, L. leptosoma, seems to be cosmopolitan and the other species have only been reported from their type localities (Geraert, 2008; Soleymanzadeh et al., 2016)..
  
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Morphology and Anatomy:

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References:

Geraert, E. 2008. The Tylenchidae of the world. Identification of the family Tylenchidae (Nematoda). Ghent, Belgium, Academia Press.

Soleymanzadeh, M., Majid Pedram, Ebrahim Pourjam and Sergio Alvarez-Ortega. 2016. Description of Lelenchus brevislitus n. sp. (Nematoda: Tylenchidae), an example of a cryptic species from Iran and its phylogenetic relationships with other species in the family. Nematology 18:987-996.

 

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Revised: September 13, 2023.