The species name refers to the city of Amol, Iran,
which is near the area where the species was dicovered.
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Vermiform, wide, irregularly ventrally curved after fixation.
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Cuticle thin, finely annulated with five to six lines in the lateral
field.
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Lip region low, continuous with the body contour.
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Stylet short, conus as long as the shaft or slightly shorter, small
knobs distinct.
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Dorsal gland orifice close to the stylet knobs.
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Corpus muscular, wide, slender, isthmus lacking, pharyngeal glands
forming long dorsal overlapping.
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Phyaryngo-intestinal junction anterior to the nerve ring and excretory
pore.
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Intestine simple, rectum and anus functional.
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Monodelphic-prodelphic,
ovary long, usually reaching nerve ring, reflexed once or twice in some
individuals, oocytes
in multiple rows close to the germinal zone, reducing to two rows
distally,
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Oviduct
and spermatheca indistint, crustaformeria formed from multiple cells,
joining to the uterus; vagina with sclerotized walls,
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Vulva
a transverse slit with protruding lips and the postvulval uterine sac
absent.
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Tail conical, short, with wide rounded tip dorsally bent in fresh
females in water.
Species described from rotting wood in forest locations in Mazandaran
province, northern Iran.
Mobasseri, M., Pedram, M., Pourjam, E. 2017.A New Species of
the Rare Genus Anguillonema Fuchs, 1938 (Nematoda: Hexatylina,
Sphaerularioidea) with Its Molecular Phylogenetic Study. J. Nematology
49:286-294.
Siddiqi, M. R. 2000. Tylenchida: Parasites of plants and insects, 2nd ed.
Wallingford: CABI Publishing.