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Female:
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Body cylindrical, length 453.1 to 563.4 μm, usually ventrally
curved after fixation,
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Cuticle striated.
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Three lateral incisures which end posteriorly near phasmid opening
on the tail.
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Head not offset, continuous with contour of the neck.
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Lip region 5.4 to 6.9 μm wide, triradiate symmetry with 6 outer
labial and 4 cephalic papillae.
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Cephalic probolae absent; three ridge-shaped, low rounded labial
probolae present.
- Amphid openings transverse,
oval-shaped .
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Stoma cephaloboid, 1.6 to 2.3 times length of the lip region
diameter.
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Cheilostom similar in width to the gymnostom and with a dorsal
denticle on metastom.
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Pharyngeal corpus cylindrical, 2.8 to 3.1 times isthmus length.
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Isthmus narrower than corpus, and distinctly demarcated from
corpus.
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Basal bulb oval-shaped with well-developed valve;.
- cardia
conoid, surrounded by intestinal tissue.
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Nerve ring at posterior end of corpus, near junction of corpus and
isthmus.
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Excretory pore at the level of posterior end of corpus to anterior
end of isthmus, 50 to 62 annuli from anterior end, at 59.8% to
69.6% of total neck length.
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Deirid in the lateral field at level of isthmus, 55 to 67 annuli
from anterior end, at 65.7% to 75.1% of pharynx length.
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Female reproductive system monodelpic-prodelpic.
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Vulva either protruding or not.
- Postvulval
sac 0.8 to 1.3 times the body diam. at vulva.
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Uterus tubular, 1.7 to 2.4 times the body diameter.
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Spermatheca 18.3 to 31.7 μm long, but note that males not detected
at type locality.
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Oviduct very short.
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Ovary straight to posterior, sometimes with double flexure
posterior to vulva, with a single row of oocytes.
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Rectum 1.2 to 1.8 times the anal body diameter. Tail ventrally
curved and sigmoid elongated conoid, with 25 to 32 annules.
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Phasmid openings at 30% to 41.5% of tail length.\\
Ref. Kim et al., 2017.
Male:
Unknown.
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