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Classification:

Rhabditida
       Tylenchina
        Tylenchoidea

           Merliniidae

             Merliniinae

          Paramerlinius Sturhan, 2012

    Synonyms:
      None.

Sturhan (2012) considered three characters for distinguishing Amplimerlinius from Paramerlinius:

 i) refractive inner cuticle layer at female and juvenile tail end (absent vs present);

ii) the thickness of hyaline region of the tail (thickened vs not thickened);

 iii) the number of lateral incisures at the position of the deirids (six vs four incisures).

Although the first two characters exist for all known species in Merliniinae, the third has not been shown for all species of Paramerlinius (Ghaderi, 2019).

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References:

Ghaderi, R. 2019. Observations on paratypes of Amplimerlinius Siddiqi, 1976 species confirm the transference of A. clavicaudatus (Choi & Geraert, 1975) Siddiqi, 1976 to Paramerlinius Sturhan, 2012. Nematology 21.

Sturhan, D. (2012). Contribution to a revision of the family Merliniidae Ryss, 1998, with proposal of Pratylenchoidinae subfam. n., Paramerlinius gen. n., Macrotylenchus gen. n. and description of M. hylophilus sp. n. (Tylenchida). Journal of Nematode Morphology and Systematics 15: 127-147

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Revised: August 03, 2020.