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Classification:

         Chromadorea

Chromadoria

         Rhabditida

Rhabditina

             Infraorder Rhabditomorpha

                  Heligosomoidea

       Heligmonellidae

                    Nippostrongylinae

                  Orientostrongylus Durette-Dusette, 1970

      

Type species of the genus: Orientostrongylus tenorai Durette-Dusette, 1970

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Strongylidae are thought to have arisen from free-living rhabditoid nematodes (Durette-Dusset et al., 1994).

The genus Orientostrongylus is well defined by its primitive characters, mainly the arrangement of its ccuticular ridges, the thickness of its dorsal ray and the shape of its caudal bursa (Durette-Dusset 1970).

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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., Beveridge, I., Spratt, D.M. 1994. The origins and evolutionary expansion of the Strongylida (Nematoda). Int. J. Parasitol. 24:1139-1165.

Durette-Desset, M-C. 1970. Caracteres primitifs de certains Nematodes Heligmosomes parasites de Muridas et de Cricetides orientaux. Ann. Parasitol. Hum. Comp., 45-829-837.

  D.M. Spratt ^{‡}

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Revised: December 17, 2024.