Longidorus
{{Short description|Genus of roundworms}}
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| image = Longidorus_pisi_(10.3897-zookeys.830.32188)_Figure_8.jpg
| image_alt = The image consists of multiple microscope images of the nematodes
| image_caption = Longidurus pisi - A is a female and B is a male. The image also shows reproductive parts etc.
| taxon = Longidorus
| authority = Micoletzky, 1922
| subdivision_ranks = Species
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Longidorus is a genus of needle nematodes. Some of its species are plant pests.{{cite journal
|title=Longidorus breviannulatus n. sp. (Nematoda: Longidoridae) Associated with Stunted Corn in Iowa
|pmc=2620091
|journal=J Nematol |date=April 1975|volume=7|number=2|pages= 168–171
|author=C. D. Norton and J. K. Hoffmann
|pmid=19308150}}[http://nematode.unl.edu/longidorusspecies.html Longidorus species - The Needle Nematode. University of Nebraska-Lincoln]{{cite journal
|journal=J Nematol |date=March 1996 |volume=28|number=1 |pages=83–93
|pmc=2619677
|title=Descriptions of Three New Longidorus Species from Alaska (Nematoda: Longidoridae)
|author=R. T. Robbins and D. J. F. Brown
|pmid=19277349}}
They may also transmit important plant viruses{{sfn|Zuckerman|Rohde|1981|loc=[https://books.google.com/books?id=pU9Mz--9wwoC&pg=PA286 Longidorus transmitted viruses. p. 286]}} such as the potato virus U or the cacao necrosis virus.
Species are known to infest narcissus, alfalfa, beet, caneberries, lettuce, grape and citruses
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Zuckerman|editor1-first=Bert M.|editor2-last=Rohde|editor2-first=Richard A.|title=Plant Parasitic Nematodes vol. 3|date=1981|publisher=Elsevier Science|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0323147033|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pU9Mz--9wwoC|access-date=14 December 2014}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Singh|first1=S. K.|last2=Hodda|first2=M.|last3=Ash|first3=G. J.|title=Plant-parasitic nematodes of potential phytosanitary importance, their main hosts and reported yield losses|journal=EPPO Bulletin|date=August 2013|volume=43|issue=2|pages=334–374|doi=10.1111/epp.12050|url=https://www.academia.edu/4091452|access-date=15 December 2014}}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez | first1 = Carlos | last2 = Cantalapiedra-Navarrete | first2 = Carolina | last3 = Montes-Borrego | first3 = Miguel | last4 = Palomares-Rius | first4 = Juan E. | last5 = Castillo | first5 = Pablo | year = 2013 | title = Molecular phylogeny of the nematode genus Longidorus (Nematoda: Longidoridae) with description of three new species | url =https://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/84055/3/nematode_genus_longidorus_Gutierrez.pdf | journal = Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | volume = 167 | issue = 4| pages = 473–500 | doi = 10.1111/zoj.12019| hdl = 10261/84055 | hdl-access = free }}
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