Tachygonetria marocana, Bouamer & Morand, 2005

Bouamer, Salah & Morand, Serge, 2005, Descriptions of two new species of the genus Tachygonetria Wedl, 1862 (Nematoda, Pharyngodonidae) and redescriptions of five species parasites of Palaearctic Testudinidae, Zoosystema 27 (2), pp. 193-209 : 208

Tachygonetria marocana n. sp. resembles T. longicollis , T. pusilla , T. setosa and T. settatensis Bouamer & Morand, 2003 by the body shape in the male but T. marocana n. sp. is easily distinguished from this group and all species of the genus, in possessing the following combined characters: the cephalic lips are transparent, elongated and with a flat internal side, the middle-sized post-anal papillae and kidney shape, the anterior anal lip is formed by two flat and robust lobes rectangular distally, a pre-anal membrane with six lobes, simple spicule and needle-shaped. T. khallaayounei n. sp. resembles to T. marocana n. sp. by the body shape, the spicule and pre-anal papillae shape but differs in the shape of cephalic papillae, the size of preanal and post-anal pair of papillae, by the size and layout of the post-anal pair of papillae and by the shape of pre-anal membrane. The postanal papillae of T. khallaayounei n. sp. are robust and very close to the posterior lip, which is not the case for T. marocana n. sp. In T. khallaayounei n. sp. the lips are transparent with a conical-shaped internal side, whereas, the lips of T. marocana n. sp. are transparent with a regular internal side.