Schulzia

  

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Classification:

         Chromadorea

Chromadoria

         Rhabditida

Rhabditina

             Infraorder Rhabditomorpha
                  Molineoidea
       Molineidae
Molineinae
                   
                  Schulzia Travassos, 1937
      Type species of the genus:  Schulzia travassosi Durette-Desset, Baker & Voucher, 1985

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Morphology and Anatomy:

General charcteristics:

Synlophe without true cuticular ridges but with simple undulations instead.

 

 

Females:

  • Ovojector distinct ovojector; vestibule with 3 muscular branches, the first a prolongation of the vagina vera;
  • Caudal spine absent

Ref: Willkens et al., 2025

Males:  

  • Genital cone with small irregular digitations
  • Spicules single-pointed, bifurcated or trifurcated
  • Caudal bursa with well-developed dorsal lobe and rays 10 and 9 notably longer.

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Distribution:

Reported from the Neotropics (Slimane et al., 1996); frogs in Peru, Panama, Paraguay, Argentina..

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Schulzia

Parasites of amphibials (frogs).

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Biology and Ecology:

 

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Life Cycle:

Probably direct

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Management:

 
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References:

Durette-Desset, M-C., Baker, M.R., Vaucher, C 1985. Helminthes parasites du Paraguay IX. Remaniement et redefinition du genre Schulzia Travassos, 1937. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 92:811-821.

Slimane, B.B., Chabaud , A.G., and Durette-Desset, M.C. 1996.  Les nematodes trichostrongylina parasites d’amphibiens et de reptiles: problemes taxonomiques, phyletiques et biogeographiques. Systematic Parasitology 35:179-206. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00009639

Travassos, L. 1937. Revisão da família Trichostrongylidae Leiper, 1912. Monographias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 1(2):1-512.

Willkens, Y., Santos, J.N., Melo, F.T.V.V. 2025. Molineid nematodes of amphibians and reptiles: A checklist of Caribbean, Panamanian, and Neotropical species and notes on their biology and host associations. Parasitology 153:169-185. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031182025101364

Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: May 26, 2026.