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Mycetophagous (fungivorous), free-living
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Body slender, gradually narrowing toward
anteriorly.
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Six lines are present in lateral fields.
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Lip region low, not offset from body contour.
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Stylet small, knobbed, shaft longer than conus.
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DEGO at base of the stylet knobs.
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Hemizonid at level of nerve ring;
secretory-excretory pore posterior to hemizonid.
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Pharynx with no median bulb, and with junction
with intestine is anterior to the nerve ring; dorsal pharyngeal gland is
long, overlapping intestine.
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Rectum and anus functional.
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Monodelphic-prodelphic; ovary outstretched,
oocytes in single or double rows, spermatheca oblong-oval, filled with
large sperm cells; crustoformeria with more than four cells in each row.
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Vagina modernity sclerotized, vulva with elevated
lips, no post-uterine sac and no vulval flap.
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Tail is conical, uniformly narrowing to the end,
with a small mucro at the tip.
Species described from a soil sample collected at Ghara-Gheshlagh lagoon,
Bonab, East Azarbaijan province, northwestern Iran,
Fungivorous, entomopathogenis
morph not found.
Bonab, M.A., Atighi, M.R., Pedram, M. 2023. Deladenus
bonabensis n. sp. (Tylenchomorpha: Neotylenchidae) from East Azarbaijan
province, northwestern Iran: A morphological and molecular phylogenetic
study. J. Nematology 55: | DOI: 10.2478/jofnem-2023-0002