Veleshkinema iranicum Miraeiz, Heydari, Álvarez-Ortega, Pedram & Atighi, 2015, n. gen.
Creators: name: Miraeiz, Esmaeil
name: Heydari, Ramin
name: Álvarez-Ortega, Sergio
name: Pedram, Majid
name: Atighi, Mohammad Reza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Nematoda
Chromadorea
Tylenchida
Sphaerulariidae
Veleshkinema
Veleshkinema iranicum

description: Veleshkinema iranicum n. gen., n. sp.
(Figs 1–5)
Measurements. See Table 3.
Description. Female. Free-living. Medium sized nematodes. Body mostly straight after heat relaxation, sometimes irregularly bent, slightly tapering towards both ends. Cuticle with fine transverse annulations, annuli about 1.2–1.7 Μm wide at mid-body. Lateral field barely visible by light microscopy, not raised, beginning anteriorly at the end of procorpus with three lines (forming two bands) increasing to six areolated equidistant incisures at mid-body, approximately one-fourth as wide as body diameter, gradually decreasing to four at tail region. Deirids at the level of excretory pore. Cephalic region low, anteriorly flat, continuous with body contour, 1- 2 µm high and 6–8 µm wide. Stylet delicate with asymmetrical minute knobs, conus shorter than shaft (28–38% of total stylet length); DGO opens just posterior to subventral knob. Procorpus non-muscular, metacorpus less developed, isthmus slender, pharyngeal gland lobe dorsally (sometimes dorso-laterally) overlapping intestine about 0.5–2.1 times corresponding body diameter, cardia distinct. Nerve ring circum-pharyngeal, always anterior to excretory pore, located 62–99 µm from anterior end. Excretory pore with sclerotized duct. Hemizonid barely visible, just anterior to excretory pore (5–11 Μm anterior to excretory pore), 2–3 annuli long. Intestine with distinct lumen ending in a distinct rectum. Reproductive system monodelphic-prodelphic, occupying 41–70% of the body length, ovary outstretched, sometimes reaching dorsal pharyngeal gland, with single row of oocytes. Oviduct cellular, spermatheca rounded, offset and filled with minute spheroid sperm (2–3 µm in diameter). Crustaformeria apparently quadricolumellate, with 8–10 distinct cells in each column, uterus thick-walled, vagina well-sclerotized and sigmoid. Vulva a wide transverse slit with prominent lips and a single epiptygma. Tail conical, with pointed tip, sometimes with a small mucron or bifurcate.
1. Length of conus as percentage of total stylet length.
2. Distance between anterior end of body and center of median pharyngeal bulb as percentage of pharyngeal length. 3. Distance from pharyngo-intestinal junction to end of dorsal gland tip.
Male. Free-living. General morphology similar to that of female, slightly shorter and more slender. Genital system monorchic, testis outstretched, occupying 52–61% of the body length, with developing spermatocytes in single or two rows, never reaching dorsal pharyngeal gland lobe. Spicules tylenchoid, ventrally arcuate with rounded apex. Gubernaculum simple. Bursa annulated, subterminal. Tail similar to that of female.
Entomoparasitic generation. Not found.
Etymology.The name of the genus refers to Veleshk, the region where the new genus was recovered. The species epithet refers to the country of origin.
description: Published as part of Miraeiz, Esmaeil, Heydari, Ramin, Álvarez-Ortega, Sergio, Pedram, Majid & Atighi, Mohammad Reza, 2015, Molecular and morphological characterization of Veleshkinema iranicum n. gen., n. sp. (Nematoda: Hexatylina, Sphaerularioidea) from Iran, pp. 531-546 in Zootaxa 4000 (5) on pages 538-540, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.5.3, http://zenodo.org/record/232430