Rev 09/13/2023
Pratylenchoides spp. were originally thought to be closely related to the lesion nematodes (Pratylenchus spp.). Ryss (1993) transferred Pratylenchoides to the subfamily Pratylenchoidinae Siddiqi, 1971 in the family Merliniidae. Molecular studies support this decision (Bert et al., 2008; Holterman et al., 2009; van Megen et al., 2009; Ghaderi et al., 2014; Panahandeh et al., 2014; Azizi et al., 2016; Hosseinvand et al., 2009).
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