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Male:
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Reproductive system monorchic. Testis
reflexed ventrally anteriorly.
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Tail similar to female but posteriorly more
slende, almost filiform.
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Bursa leptoderan, open anteriorly; nine
pairs of genital papillae (1 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 3), three pairs
precloacal, the fourth not reaching bursa margin.
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Spicules weakly curved ventrad: manubrium
rounded.
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Gubernaculum slightly curved ventrad,
with three dorsal tubercles, anteriormost two shorter and more
prominent than posterior one.
Ref: Abolafia and Pena-Santiago, 2009
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Female:
- Stout body, cuticle with very fine transverse
striations, practically smooth.
- Lateral field occupying about one-tenth of
mid-body diam.
- Lip region offset by shallow constriction, about
three times as wide as high. Six lips, rounded, with two pairs of
thin setae on each.
- Stoma rhabditoid; cheilostom short,
gymnostom slightly longer than cheilostom, with curved walls;
stegostom more or less cylindrical, occupying ca two-thirds of stoma
length; metastegostom bearing glottoid apparatus with minute teeth.
- Esophageal corpus with cylindrical procorpus and
metacorpus, barely differentiated; isthmus narrower than corpus.
Basal bulb ovoid, with valves at its midpoint. Cardia
hemispherical,/
- Excretory pore located at about 75% of neck
length, at level of posterior portion of isthmus.
- Reproductive system didelphic-amphidelphic.
Each ovary with a flexure.
- Vagina ca twice as long as wide, with thin walls.
- Vulva a transverse slit with lips slightly
elevated.
- Rectum 0.5-1.1 anal body diam. long.
- Tail anteriorly conoid, as long as broad;
posterilut more slender, 33-40 um long, tapering gradually to an
acute terminus.
- Phasmid located at level of junction between two
parts of tail.
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