• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.345-348
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• 2021

The genus Eucephalobus Steiner, 1936, belonging to the family Cephalobidae Filipjev, 1934 (Cephalobomorpha), represents a group of bacterial feeding nematodes. Although this group is cosmopolitan and species-rich, only two species have been reported from South Korea. Eucephalobus iaculocaudatus Bostrom and Holovachov, 2011 was collected from natural forest in Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. This species shows typical morphological characters of the genus Eucephalobus, including a bicornuate labial probolae, cephalic probolae absent and three lateral incisures. However, E. iaculocaudatus is distinguished from other Eucephalobus species by conoid tail with a harpoon-shape mucro in female and ragged mucro in male. In this study, detailed morphological characters and morphometrics of E. iaculocaudatus are described and illustrated based on optical microscopy.