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- Body slender, slightly ventrally arcuate
- Cuticle with fine annulations. Lateral field with four incisures.
- Lip
region with five or six annuli and six similar labial
sectors offset, more than twice as broad
as high.
- Oral aperture surrounded by six inner labial papillae and
four cephalic papillae. Outer labial papillae vestigial.
- Amphidial
apertures oval, on edges of labial plate.
- Stylet fine, conus occupying ca 40% of its
total length, knobs small.
- Procorpus cylindrical, metacorpus well developed, oval to spherical, with slightly anteriorly
situated valves.
- Dorsal pharyngeal gland orifice (DPGO) opening into lumen
of metacorpus
- Pharyngo-intestinal junction located half a metacorpal valve
length posterior to base of metacorpus.
- Nerve ring ca one body diam.
posterior to metacorpus.
- Pharyngeal gland lobe a slender dorsl overlap of intestine.
- Excretory pore slightly posterior to nerve ring.
Female:
- Monodelphic, prodelphic with ovary, oviduct, spermatheca, crustaformeria,
uterus, vagina + vulva and long post-vulval uterine sac (PUS).
- Ovary
single, outstretched, developing oocytes arranged in 1-2 rows,
several well-developed oocytes arranged in a single row.
- Oviduct
short and connected to an ovoid to oblonged spermatheca, filled with
sperm cells.
- Vagina slightly inclined anteriorly, with massive
sclerotisation.
- Vulva a traverse slit, anterior vulval lip modified
into a long vulval flap covering the posterior vulval lip.
- Anus distinct, its lips slightly elevated.
- Tail conoid,
slightly ventrally curved with a stalk ending in 8-12 finger-like
projections.(seen clearly under SEM).eneral morphology similar to male.
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