{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,29]],"date-time":"2026-04-29T09:44:01Z","timestamp":1777455841645,"version":"3.51.4"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Magnolia Press","issue":"1","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Zootaxa"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Two new species of nematodes belonging to the family Cephalobidae (Nematoda, Rhabditida) are described from natural areas in the province of Kerman, Iran. Paracrobeles deserticola sp. n. is characterized by its body length of 0.48\u20130.60 mm in females and 0.47\u20130.66 mm in males, cuticle annulated and weakly tessellated into rectangular blocks with striae discontinuous across annulations, lateral field with two wings, areolated, separated by a narrow groove, lip region slightly offset, 15\u201320 \u03bcm wide, lips asymmetrical with two long seta-like processes arising from its margin, primary axils bearing one triangular-elongate guard process, secondary axils with two setiform guard processes with one originating from each lip, labial probolae bifurcated with long and smooth prongs having a small basal ridge, stoma 11\u201314 \u03bcm long, metacorpus swollen, spermatheca 33\u201350 \u03bcm long, post-uterine sac 60\u201396 \u03bcm long or 2.9\u20134.5 times the corresponding body diameter, vulva located slightly posterior to mid-body length (V = 50\u201363), female tail conical with finely rounded tip (53\u201367 \u03bcm, c = 9.0\u201310.0, c\u2019 = 2.0\u20133.0), male tail conical and curved ventrad with finely rounded tip (48\u201354 \u03bcm, c = 9.0\u201313.0, c\u2019 = 1.8\u20132.0), spicules 46\u201356 \u03bcm long and curved ventrad, and gubernaculum 16\u201324 \u03bcm long. Nothacrobeles hebetocaudatus sp. n. is characterized by its body length (0.42\u20130.51 \u03bcm in females and 0.42\u20130.52 \u00b5m in males), \u201csingle\u201d cuticle, lateral field with three incisures, asymmetrical lips divided in two sections at level of the labial papilla, each lip with four tines along its margin, primary axils deep bearing one triangular-elongate guard process originating from the incomplete first annulus, secondary axils demarcated by narrow incisures separating the lips of the pair and without guard processes, labial probolae bifurcated and without tines (7\u201311 \u03bcm long), pharyngeal corpus 2.0\u20133.7 times isthmus length, Rex = 28\u201338, spermatheca 24\u201355 \u03bcm long or 2.9\u20133.8 times the corresponding body diameter, post-uterine sac 18\u201327 \u03bcm long or 0.7\u20131.3 times the corresponding body diameter long, female tail conical with rounded terminus (30\u201336 \u03bcm, c = 13.6\u201315.5, c' = 1.8\u20132.3), phasmid at 38\u201344% of tail length, male tail conical (28\u201340 \u00b5m, c = 11.5\u201315.3, c' = 1.7\u20132.0), spicules 20\u201325 \u00b5m long and gubernaculum 11\u201316 \u00b5m long. Descriptions, measurements, illustrations and SEM pictures are provided for these two species. In addition, SEM study of N. abolafiai is presented. Molecular analysis based on 28S rDNA (D2\/D3 expansion fragments) places Paracrobeles deserticola sp. n. in a clade together with N. abolafiai and N. hebetocaudatus sp. n., while other species of the genus Nothacrobeles (N. borregi, N. spatulatus and N. tringlarus) are all placed in separate clades. The results suggest that the genus Nothacrobeles might be a polyphyletic taxon.\u00a0<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.11646\/zootaxa.3827.1.1","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,7,2]],"date-time":"2014-07-02T09:35:16Z","timestamp":1404293716000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Description of Paracrobeles deserticola sp. n. and Nothacrobeles hebetocaudatus sp. n. 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