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- Cuticle smooth; scattered somatic setae in cervical region.
- Buccal cavity with sclerotized walls, longer than wide; armed with
three typical oncholaimid teeth, two ventrosublateral teeth with longest
on right side and one small dorsal tooth, and three mandibular ridges
with small teeth in ventral and lateral position. Valve present at base
of stoma.
- Amphids pocket to bowl-shaped
- Pharynx cylindrical, slightly widening posteriorly;
outer wall not crenellate; cardia conspicuous.
- The buccal cavity with more than 3 teeth places the genus in the
subfamily Octonchinae.
Male:
- Diorchic, testes opposed and outstretched
- Spicules short with well-developed manubrium.
- Gubernaculum with dorsal apophyses and lateral curved crura.
- Precloacal papilliform supplements (9-10) plus two subventral
setae.
- Three caudal gland with cell bodies anterior to cloaca.
opening at tail tip.
- Tail length 3.6 x cbd
Female:
- Didelphic-amphidelphic. ovaries reflexed
- Demanian system consisting of two ducts: one short
tube between oviduct and osmosium which connects to the
intestine (ductus entericus), one short tube connection from
oviduct junction to uvette that connects to the uterus (ductus
uterinus). Near vulva opening, on left side of the body, there
is a second connection between the uterus and the intestine.
Surrounding this connection several disc-shaped cells (glands)
have been observed. This connection has a short tube that seems
to have its end (on left side), on surface of the body with a
similar structure to a porus terminalis. Demanian system similar
to those in the genera Viscosia
and Meyersia.
Ref: Pastor De Ward et al., 2015
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