Suncinema

  

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Classification:

         Chromadorea

Chromadoria

         Rhabditida

Rhabditina

             Infraorder Rhabditomorpha
                  Heligmosomoidea
       Heligmosomidae
Heligmosominae
                   
                  Suncinema Durette-Desset, 1973
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    •       Type species of the genus: Suncinema murini Durette-Desset, 1973

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    Morphology and Anatomy:

    Species are distinguished by differences in the bursal rays and characteristics of the female vagina-vera (Durette-Desset, 1974).

    Characteristics of the genus:

    Suncinema murini A: Male anteriorN: Male spicule; C: Female transverse section at mid-body; D: Female cuticular ridges, anterior end;  F: Female ovejectors; G: Female posterior;  H: Male caudal bursa; I: spicule. 

     Bars: A,B,C,E, F,G, H ,I: 50 mu; DE: 100 mu.

    Drawings from Durette-Desset,  1973.

    Females:

    •  Tail pointed posteriorly

      
     

    Males:  

    • Spicules short and simple
    • Ray 9 of caudal bursa reduced and deeply divided; ray 8 almost as long as ray 6.

     

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    Distribution:

    Several species described from insectivore shrews (family Soricidae) in Africa and Nepal.

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    Feeding:

    Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Suncinema

    Intestinal parasites of insectivores, including Crocidura flavescens spurelli, the Greater Red Musk Shrew in the Ivory Coast of Africa, and the type species from the intestine of Soricidae in Nepal.

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    References:

    Durette-Desset M.C. 1973. New trichostrongylid nematodes parasitic in soricid insectivores in Nepal: description of Suncinema murini ng, n. sp., an intermediate form showing the link between subfamily Molineinae and some Heligmosiomidae. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist, nat., Paris, 3e ser.,136, Zoologie 100 : 759-774.

    Durette-Desset M.C. 1974. Sur trois nouveaux Suncinema (Nematoda, Trichostrongylidae) parasites d'insectivores de Cote d'Ivoire collection P. Hunkeler). Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist Naturelle 256. Zoologie 178: 1495-1506.

     
    Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
    Revised: June 12, 2025.