Genus Schistonchus Cobb, 1927

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• Schistonchus Cobb, N.A. 1927. Note on a new nema, Aphelenchoides retusus, with a proposed division of Aphelenchus into three subgenera. Journal of Parasitology 13: 57-58 [57] [changed rank from subgenus to genus by Fuchs, 1937].
• Aphelenchus (Schistonchus) Cobb, N.A. 1927. Note on a new nema, Aphelenchoides retusus, with a proposed division of Aphelenchus into three subgenera. Journal of Parasitology 13: 57-58 [57].

  Type species:

   Anguillula caprifici Gasparrini, 1864 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NSW, Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

Diagnosis References

DeCrappeo, N. & Giblin-Davis, R.M. 2001. Schistonchus aureus n. sp. and S. laevigatus n. sp. (Aphelenchoididae): associates of native Floridian Ficus spp. and their Pegoscapus pollinators (Agaonidae). Journal of Nematology 33(2-3): 91-103 [101] (emendation)

Lloyd, J. & Davies, K.A. 1997. Two new species of Schistonchus (Tylenchida: Aphelenchoididae) associated with Ficus macrophylla from Australia. Fundamental and Applied Nematology 20(1): 79-86 [85] (emendation)

General References

Fuchs, A.G. 1937. Neue parasitische und halbparasitische nematoden bei borkenkafern und einige andere nematoden. I. Teil. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 70: 291-380 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

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