Slender body, cuticle very finely striated.
Esophagus with narrow procorpus, muscilar metacorpus with prominent
valve, slender isthmus and pyriform glandular, not valved postcorpus
that does not overlap intestine.
Well-developed cardia between esophagus and intestine.
Excretory pore level with posterior end of isthmus.
Tail elongate, filiform in both sexes.
Female:
Monovarial, prodelphic with ovary reflexed and extending well posterior
to vulva.
Short post-uterine sac.
Spermatheca not offset from uterus.
Male:
Monorchic
Spiculessmall, slender, paired, separate.
Gubernaculum curved.
Papillae in cloacal region and on tail have arrangement of diagnostic
value.
Ref. Atighi et al. (2015)
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