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The new species is characterized by its 1.01\u20131.16 mm long body in females and 0.77\u20130.98 in males, cuticle with very fine transverse striation, lip region 9\u201314 \u00b5m broad and consisting of six swollen rounded lips fused in pairs, stoma 14\u201325 \u00b5m long with tubular gymno-promesostegostom, pharynx with slightly swollen metacorpus and slender isthmus, nerve ring, excretory pore and deirids located at isthmus level, female reproductive system didelphic-amphidelphic, vulva equatorial (V = 49\u201350), female rectum length 1.2\u20131.7 times the anal body width, female tail conical-elongate with acute tip (123\u2013199 \u00b5m, c = 5.8\u20138.2, c\u2019 = 8.2\u201311.1), male tail conical (34\u201356 \u00b5m, c = 15.5\u201325.7, c\u2019 = 2.4\u20133.5), bursa leptoderan, 32\u201341 \u00b5m long spicules with rounded and ventrally bent manubrium, and 17\u201320 \u00b5m long gubernaculum. An updated list of species of the genus and a key for their identification are also provided. [Zoobank URL: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:7EBAC9DB-A148-4A1A-97E5-3B796D0839BF]\u00a0<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.11646\/zootaxa.4652.1.8","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,12]],"date-time":"2019-08-12T03:09:37Z","timestamp":1565579377000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Description of Metarhabditis giennensis sp. n. (Nematoda, Rhabditida, Rhabditidae) from decaying wood of a riverbank forest in the southern Iberian Peninsula"],"prefix":"10.11646","volume":"4652","author":[{"given":"JOAQU\u00cdN","family":"ABOLAFIA","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"REYES","family":"PE\u00d1A-SANTIAGO","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"4913","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"46543","unstructured":"<p class=\"Reference\">Abolafia, J. (2015) A low-cost technique to manufacture a container to process meiofauna for scanning electron microscopy. <em>Microscopy Research and Technique<\/em>, 78, 771\u2013776.<\/p><p class=\"Reference\"> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jemt.22538<\/p><p class=\"Reference\">Abolafia, J. &amp; Pe\u00f1a-Santiago, R. 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