Tadaridanema

Tadaridanema	Contents	Rev: 12/19/2024
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Classification:

Chromadoria
Rhabditida: Rhabditina
Infraorder Rhabditomorpha
Molineoidea: Molineidae
Anoplostrogylinae

Tadaridanema (Schwartz, 1927) Falcon-Ordaz, Guzman-Cornejo, Garcia-Prieto & Gardner, 2006
Type species of the genus: Tadaridanema delicatus (Schwartz, 1927) Falcon-Ordaz, Guzman-Cornejo, Garcia-Prieto & Gardner, 2006

Synonyms:

Anoplostrongylus Schwartz, 1927

Molinostrongylus Skarbilovitch, 1934

Morphology and Anatomy:

Medium sized, body coiled loosely, females larger than males.
Lips absent.
Cephalic inflation almost undivided.
Nerve ring located at middle of esophagus; excretory pore opening posterior to nerve ring.
Synlophe with 2 great dorsal cuticular ridges in the middle of body.
Longitudinal ridges extend posteriorly from border of cephalic inflation to just anterior of caudal extremity.
Tail with a caudal spine surrounded by 3 tubercles

Synlophe oriented ventral to dorsal; ridges in both sexes arising just posterior to cephalic inflation. Both males and females possess only 2 dorsal cuticular ridges in anterior and midbody regions; posterior region of males also with 2 dorsal ridges, but small in size . Females with 4 ridges of similar size, 2 dorsal and 2 ventral, at prevulvar level. At postvulvar region, synlophe without ventral ridges. Caudal extremity without ridges.

Females:

Didelphic, uterine branches unequal
Tail of female with terminus surrounded by 3 conical cuticular processes.

Ref: Falcon-Ordaz et al., 2006

Males:

Well-developed, symmetrical, bilobed copulatory bursa; ray 2 larger than ray 3. Rays 4, 5, and 6 separated, straight, and with striated cuticle.

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Feeding:

Intestinal parasites of bats of the genera Tadarida and Molossus.

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References:

Falcon-Ordaz, J., Guzman-Cornejo, C.; Garcia-Prieto, L., Gardner, S.L. 2006. Tadaridanema delicatus (Schwartz, 1927) n. gen., n. comb. (Trichostrongylina: Molineidae) Parasite of Molossidae Bats. J. Parasitol., 92(5): 1035-1042

Schwartz, B. 1927. A new parasitic nematode from an unknown species of bat. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 71: 1-4.

Tadaridanema

Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris. Revised: December 19, 2024.

Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: December 19, 2024.