 .Labial
probolae of Chiloplacus magnus
Scanning electron micrograph from Abolafia and Pena-Santiago (2017)
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- Small to moderate size, relatively slender nematodes
- Body cylindrical, slightly tapering towards both extremes
- Cuticle with transverse striations, lateral field with five
incisures
- Six lips with primary U-shaped and secondary V-shaped processes
- Stoma opening surrounded by three bifurcated probolae
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Stoma
jointed, slightly longer than width of
lip region
- Esophageal
corpus cylindrical,
with robust metacorpus and pyriform terminal bulb
- Excretory pore at about mid-esopahgus level
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Female:
- Left side of lateral; field expanding to a membranous ala at
vulval level
- monodelphic, prodelphic, ovary refelexed antidromously
- post-uterine sac 3.5-3.8 x body diameter in length
- Vagina oblique.
- vulva migrated to a left subventarl position and partly
covered by the membranous ala of the left lateral field
- tail subcylindrical
Male:
- momorchic
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spicules paired, curved; gubernaculum thin
- tail conical, curved ventrad
- bursa absent
Ref: Abolafia and Pena-Santiago (2017)
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