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Classification:

Tylenchida

 Tylenchina

  Tylenchoidea

             Tylenchidae 

              Tylenchinae 

              Boleodorinae

               

 Discopersicus Yaghoubi, Pourjam, Alvarez-Ortega, Liebanas, Atighi & Pedram, 2016

Type species of the genus: Discopersicus iranicus (Ghaemi, Pourjam, Atighi, Pedram Karssen, 2012) Yaghoubi, Pourjam, Alvarez-Ortega, Liebanas, Atighi & Pedram, 2016

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Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Discopersicus

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References:

Ghaemi R, Pourjam E, Atighi MR, Pedram M, Karssen G. 2012. First record of the genus Discotylenchus Siddiqi, 1980 (Nematoda: Tylenchidae) from Iran, with description of one new and data on two known species. Zootaxa. 493:72–82.

Hosseinvand, M., Eskandari, A., Abolafia, J., Ghaderi, R. 2021. Discopersicus hexagrammatus n. sp. (Rhabditida: Tylenchidae), the second species of the genus. J. Nematology 53: | DOI: 10.21307/jofnem-2021-059

Yaghoubi, A., Pourjam, E., Alvarez-Ortega, S., Liebanas, G., Atighi  M.R., and Pedram, M. 2016. Discopersicus n. gen., a New Member of the Family Tylenchidae Örley, 1880 with Detailed SEM Study on Two Known Species of the Genus Discotylenchus Siddiqi, 1980 (Nematoda; Tylenchidae) from Iran. J. Nematolog 48:214-221.

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Revised: May 09, 2025.