Abstract
Neodolichodorus Andrássy, 1976 currently encompasses eleven species of plant ectoparasites, including pathogenic species such as N. australis Hodda & Nambiar, 2005 associated with damage to carrot (Hodda and Nambiar 2005). The genus has not to date been reported in China. In 2008, during a survey of marine nematodes in Futian Mangrove Reserve of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, specimens of a bisexual population of Neodolichodorus were isolated from soil in the rhizosphere of Kandelia candel. Detailed studies of the nematode revealed that it differed from all other nominal species in the genus and it is herein described as a new species.
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