Rev 09/22/2023
Tylenchida Tylenchina Tylenchoidea Anguinidae
Nothotylenchus Thorne, 1941
Type species of the genus: Nothotylenchus acris Thorne, 1941 Synonyms: None.
The genus Nothotylenchus was established byThorne for species of Anguinidae with indistinct metacorpus bulb that is not muscular, does not have a valve, and thsat is not used in active feeding (guinid species with the median pharyngeal bulb indistinct, non-muscular, non-valvate, and not assisting in active feeding (Esmaeli et al., 2016).
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Female: Monovarial, prodelphic.
Columned uterus with four rows of 4-9 cells. The gonad differs from Ditylenchus mostly in the columned uterus.
Ref: Esmaeli et al., 2017
Only a few species are parasites of higher plants, most are mycophagus (Esmaeli et al., 2017).
Phytoparasitic species are ectoparasites, probably feeding mainly on root hairs. Probaly all species can feed on fungi in the absence of plant hosts.
Andrassy, I. 2007. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary, II (Nematoda errantia). Pedozoologica Hungarica 3. Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary. 496p.
Esmaeli, M., Heydari, R., Castillo, P. and Palomares-Rius, J.E. 2016. Nothotylenchus persicus n. sp. (Nematoda: Anguinidae) from Kermanshah province, Iran. Nematology 18:29-37.
Esmaeili, M., Ramin Heydari, Weimin Ye 2017. Description of a New Anguinid Nematode, Nothotylenchus phoenixae n. sp. (Nematoda: Anguinidae) Associated with Palm Date Trees and Its Phylogenetic Relations within the Family Anguinidae. J. Nematology 49: 268-275.
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