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New records of free-living nematode species from Mount Ararat, Turkey, with SEM study of three remarkable species

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This paper presents a study of free-living nematodes (excepting Dorylaimida) from Mount Ararat, Turkey. A total of 25 species are recorded, which belong to the orders Enoplida (one species), Triplonchida (2), Chromadorida (1), Monhysterida (2), Plectida (4) and Rhabditida (18). Nine of them are new for the Turkish fauna: Acrobeles andalusicus, A. ciliatus, Acrolobus longigubernaculum, Cervidellus vexilliger, Chiloplacus trilineatus, C. bisexualis, Panagrolaimus rigidus, Propanagrolaimus hygrophilus, and Teratocephalus terrestris. Three species, namely A. longigubernaculum, C. vexilliger and T. auriculatus, are re-described, including morphological and morphometrical data, and SEM study. The altitudinal distribution of the species is also provided.

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SEM pictures were obtained with the assistance of technical staff (Amparo Martínez-Morales) and equipment of “Centro de Instrumentación Científico-Técnica (CICT)” from University of Jaén.

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  1. Departamento de Protección Vegetal, Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias (ICIA), Valle de Guerra, Tenerife, Spain

    Taylan Çakmak

  2. Biotechnology Application and Research Centre, Çukurova University, Balcalı, Adana, Turkey

    M. Bora Kaydan

  3. Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale, Turkey

    Çiğdem Gözel & Uğur Gözel

  4. Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Campus “Las Lagunillas” s/n 23071, Jaén, Spain

    Reyes Peña-Santiago & Joaquín Abolafia

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Çakmak, T., Kaydan, M.B., Gözel, Ç. et al. New records of free-living nematode species from Mount Ararat, Turkey, with SEM study of three remarkable species. Biologia 76, 63–75 (2021). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-020-00495-x

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