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General morphology of Sychnotylenchus is similar
to that of
the Anguinidae except for the shorter male and female tails.
- Labial framework six-sectored with the six sectors equal or lateral
sectors narrower than subdorsal and sub-ventral ones.
- Esophagus with
procorpus
generally wide and separated from
median bulb
by a constriction, rarely thin and without a
constriction.
- Median bulb
with valve, well-defined, fusiform to
spherical.
- Esophageal
glands short, pyriform to elongate, wide.
- Position of
excretory
pore variable from anterior to median bulb to
opposite posterior end of glands.
- Females: tail small, cylindroid to broadly rounded
end.
- Oocytes in one/two rows.
- Columned uterus four rows of more than four cells (seven to
fourteen cells),
post-uterine sac present.
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