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- Body slender, cuticle with fine annulation.
- Lateral field with four incisures.
- Lip region rounded, slightly offset, with clear annulation,
about twice as wide as high.
- Six equally sized and fused lips with outer cephalic radial
ridges.
- Oral aperture rounded, surrounded by six inner labial sensilla.
Outer labial sensilla obscure, hexagon-shaped.
- Amphidial apertures oval, positioned dorso-laterally on edges of
non-annulated sectors of lip region,
- Four cephalic papillae at same level as amphidial openings.
- Stylet 10.2-11.0 um long with small basal swellings, conus ca
40% of its total length.
- Procorpus cylindrical, ca 3.5 body diam. long. Metacorpus
strongly developed, oval to spherical, with central valve.
- DPGO into lumen of metacorpus.
- Pharyngo-intestinal junction immediately posterior to base
of metacorpus.
- Pharyngeal gland lobe slender, ca 4-5 body diam. long,
overlapping intestine dorsally.
- Excretory pore located at level of, or anterior to, nerve ring.
Female:
- General morphology similar to male.
- Monodelphic, prodelphic.
- Ovary outstretched, witj oocytes in 1-2 rows,
- Oviduct short, spermatheca 3-4 body diam. long, axial and
squarish to oblong-shaped, filled with rounded sperm cells.
- Crustaformeria constructed of relatively large rounded cells.
- Uterus thick walled. Vagina slightly inclined anteriorly,
surrounded by refringent muscular bundles.
- Vulva f a traverse slit without vulval flap .
- Post-vulval uterine sac 4-5 vulval body diam. long,
extending 25-40% of vulva to anus distance, sometimes filled
with sperm.
- Anus distinct.
- Tail conoid, 3-5 anal body diam. long,, slightly ventrally
curved, tip similar to that of male.
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