Boehmiella wilsoni

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Rhabditida

Rhabditina

Infraorder Rhabditomorpha

Heligmosomoidea

Boehmiellidae

Boehmiella wilsoni Lucker, 1943

Synonyms:

Morphology and Anatomy:

Anterior extremity with small head; lips and cephalic capsule absent, Y-shaped oral opening.
Amphids lateral, four cephalic papillae sub-median
Esophagus with a neodont with two pairs of denticles lateroventral; nerve ring and excretory pore in anterior 30% of esophagus; deirids papilla-shabed between nerve ring and excretrory pore
Male synlophe with 64 ridges at the cervical region, 126 ridges in the mid-region, and 78 in the posterior extremity
Female synlophe with 81 ridges at the cervical region, 142 ridges in the mid-region, and 90 in the posterior extremity. In both males and females, the numbesr of synlophe ridges reported by Andrade-Silva et al (2020) are gretaer than those reported by Falcon-Ordaz and Garcia-Prieto (2004) for this species.

Females:

Didelphic uterus, ovejector with two branches.
V in the posterior third of the body.
Spermatheca present with spermatozoa
Anus near end of the body
Tail sharp, but without spine

Ref: Andrade-Silva et al., 2020

Males:

Prebursal papillae well developed
Bursa asymmetric and trilobate with reduced dorsal lobe. Internal dorsal ray bifurcated distally, and external ray with bidigitate tips. Posterolateral, mediolateral and externolateral rays highly sclerotized.
Gubernaculum present, and telamon in three interconnected parts.
Spicule short, complex, and sclerotized, with three tips.

Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:

Distribution:

Described from the stomach of the spiny tree rat (Mesomys hispidus) in Brazil (Andrade-Silva et al., 2020)

Feeding:

Parasites of the small intestine of a murid rodent

Biology and Ecology:

An intestinal parasites of rodents in the family Muridae

Life Cycle:

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

Andrade-Silva, B.E., Vilela, R.V., Lopes-Torres, E.J., Costa-Neto, S.F., Maldonado, Jr. A. 2020. Boehmiella wilsoni (Nematoda, Heligmosomoidea, Boehmiellidae fam. nov.), found in Amazonian rodents. IJP: Parasites and Wildlife 13:119-129.

Falcon-Ordaz, J., GarcÃa-Prieto, L. 2004. Analisis morfologico de algunos Trichostrongilinos (Strongylida) depositados en La ColecciÂ´on Nacional de Helmintos del Instituto de BiologÃa, UNAM, Mexico. Rev. Biol. Trop. 52 (2): 377-386.

Lucker, J.T. 1943. A new trichostrongylid nematode from the stomachs of American squirrels. J of Wash Sci 33 (3):75-79.