“…The family Dolichodoridae Chitwood in Chitwood & Chitwood, 1950 includes eight subfamilies, 24 genera and over 400 species worldwide (Decraemer & Hunt, 2006;Geraert, 2011;Sturhan, 2012). So far, several species of the genera Amplimerlinius Siddiqi, 1976, Geocenamus Thorne & Malek, 1968, Merlinius Siddiqi, 1970, Nagelus Thorne & Malek, 1968, Paramerlinius Sturhan, 2012and Scutylenchus Jairajpuri, 1971 of the subfamily Merliniinae Siddiqi, 1971, Neodolichorhynchus Jairajpuri & Hunt, 1984, Paratrophurus Arias, 1970, Quinisulcius Siddiqi, 1971, Trichotylenchus Whitehead, 1960, Trophurus Loof, 1956and Tylenchorhynchus Cobb, 1913 of the subfamily Telotylenchinae Siddiqi, 1960, andPratylenchoides Winslow, 1958 of the subfamily Pratylenchoidinae Sturhan, 2012 have been reported from Iran.…”