Paratrichodorus

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Paratrichodorus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Adenophorea
Order: Triplonchida
Family: Trichodoridae
Genus: Paratrichodorus
Siddiqi, 1974 [1]
Type species
Paratrichodorus tunisiensis Siddiqi
Species

Paratrichodorus is a genus of terrestrial root feeding (stubby-root) nematodes in the Trichodoridae family (trichorids), being one of five genera. [2] They are economically important plant parasites and virus vectors. [3] The females are didelphic (two genital tracts), and are distributed worldwide. [4]

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Taxonomy

Historically, Trichodorus formed the only genus in the Trichodoridae family. Then Trichodorus was split into two genera in 1974 by Siddiqi, [1] Trichodorus and Paratrichodorus. The genus, which is the second largest in the family consists of 34 species. [4] Siddiqi based the separation on the position of the gland nuclei and the type of pharyngo-intestinal junction.

Subdivision

Using the same characteristics as those establishing the genus, Siddiqi described three subgenera, Paratrichodorus, Atlantadorus and Nanidorus, but Decraemer did not support the validity of this. [5] While the latter approach has not been accepted by some authorities, [5] Siddiqi elevated them to genus status in 1980, [6] [7] an approach that few other authors have followed, [8] but maintained by that author, [9] and now receiving some support from modern molecular approaches to taxonomy. At least in the case of Nanidorus, phylogenetic analysis has supported its recognition as a separate genus, although clustering with Trichodorus rather than its parent Paratrichodorus. [8] [10]

Plant pathology

Trichorids became of interest in 1951. [11] At that time Trichodorus christie (= Paratrichodorus minor ) was recognised as a pest of crops in Florida. [12]

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References

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  8. 1 2 Duarte et al. 2010.
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