Hemicycliophora undetermined

Subbotin, Sergei A., Chitambar, John J., Chizhov, Vlamidir N., Stanley, Jason D., Inserra, Renato N., Doucet, Marcelo E., Clure, Michael M, Ye, Weimin, Yeates, George W., Mollov, Dimitre S., Cantalapiedra-Navarrete, Carolina, Vovlas, Nicola, Berg, Esther Van Den & Castillo, Pablo, 2014, Molecular phylogeny, diagnostics, and diversity of plant-parasitic nematodes of the genus Hemicycliophora (Nematoda: Hemicycliophoridae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171 (3), pp. 475-506 : 491

NON- IDENTIFIED HEMICYCLIOPHORA SPECIES

Twenty-five populations of sheath nematodes were classified as representatives of 14 unidentified species ( Table 1). Samples of Hemicycliophora sp. 1 from Greece, Hemicycliophora sp. 7 and sp. 14 from Spain, Hemicycliophora sp. 2 and sp. 6 from New Zealand, and Hemicycliophora sp. 8 , sp. 12, and sp. 13 from USA were too poorly fixed or had insufficient numbers of adults for their morphological identification and determination of their taxonomic status. Thus, these populations were only molecularly characterized, without attempting any morphological and morphometric study. Other Hemicycliophora samples (sp. 3, sp. 4, sp. 5, sp. 9, sp. 10, and sp. 11) were morphometrically characterized but their morphological variation prevented their reliable identification because their morphology fitted that of several valid species, which presently are poorly or incompletely morphologically described. At this point, these species have been left unnamed but differentiated from other Hemicycliophora species that they most closely resemble. These unsuccessful identification attempts point out the need for complete morphological and molecular data of Hemicycliophora species collected from the type localities in order to make possible the identification of our samples in future studies.