General Characteristics
- Body < 1mm
- Cuticle with prominent striations
- Cuticle with 6-20 longitucinal ridges outside lateral fields.
- Lateral
field with one two, three, four, or five incisures sometimes
areolated.
- Tail conoid to
subcylindroid.
- Head region usually offset from body contour, with moderate
sclerotization.
- Stylet 12-27 µm long, thin to slender, has strong knobs, with
cone about as long as shaft, sometimes needle-like.
- Esophageal glands bound by a membrane into a large basal bulb.
Appear to butt into intestine.
-
Deirids absent.
Females:
- Diovarial,
amphidelphic, ovaries outstretched, vulva about 50%.
- Tail tapered and rounded.
Males:
[Ref: Geraert, 2011]
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