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Classification:

         Chromadorea

Chromadoria

         Rhabditida

Rhabditina

             Infraorder Rhabditomorpha

                  Heligmosomoidea

       Viannaiidae

                    Viannaiinae

                  Travassostrongylus Orloff, 1933

 

      

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Species are characterized by having a synlophe with 10–12 (5–6 dorsal and 5–6 ventral) cuticular ridges at medium region oriented from right to left, and by lacking lateral cuticular ridgeslar ridges (Durette-Desset, 1983).

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Distribution:

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Feeding:

Intestinal parasites of south American didelphid marsupials (opossums), rodents and monkeys.

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References:

Beveridge, I., Spratt, D.M.  and Durette-Desset, M-C. 2014. Order Strongylida (Railliet and Henry, 1913). In Schmidt-Raesa, A. (ed). Handbook of Zoology: Gastroctricha, Cycloneurelia and Gnathifera. Vol 2. Nematoda. De Gruyter, Berlin.

Durette-Desset, M. C. 1983. Keys to genera of the superfamily Trichostrongyloidea. InKeys to the Nematode Parasites of Vertebrates. No. 10, R. C. Anderson and A. G. Chabaud (eds.). Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux, Farnham Royal, U.K., p. 1–68. 

Ramirez-Canas, S.A., Lopez-Cballero, J.D., Mata-Lopez, R. 2021. Morphological and molecular data eveal two new species of Viannia (Nematoda: Viannaiidae), parasitizing opossums (Mammalia: Didelphidae) in Mexico. J. Parasiitol 107:388-403.

Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: June 03, 2024.