Durettestrongylus

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Classification:

Chromadoria
Rhabditida: Rhabditina
Infraorder Rhabditomorpha
Heligmosomoidea: Heligmonellidae
Pudicinae

Durettestrongylus Guerrero 1982
: Type species of the genus: Durettestrongylus ojastii Guerrero, 1982

Synonyms:

Morphology and Anatomy:

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

Synlophe without carene; presence of a ventral comarete well developed along the entire body length; ridges continuous.

Ref: Durette and Justine, 1991

Females:

Males:

Caudal bursa type 2-2-1; 9th rays slightly longer than 10th rays and inserted distally on the dorsal ray.

Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:

Distribution:

Parasites of caviomorph (New World) rodents

Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Durettestrongylus

Parasites of caviomorph rodents in family Dasyproctidae.

Life Cycle:

For Ecophysiological Parameters for this genus, click

Ecosystem Functions and Services:

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. and Justine, J-C. 1991. A cladistic anaklysis of the genera in the subfamily Pudicinae (Nematoda, Trichostrongyloides, Heligmonellidae). Int. Jour. Parasitol. 21:579-587

Guerrero, R. 1982. Trichostrongyloidea (Nematoda) parasitos de Mamiferos silvestres de Venezuela. I. Los generos Bradypostrongylus Price, 1928, Longisfriata Schulz, 1926 y Durettestrongylus n. gen. Acta Biologica Venezuelica 11: 111-131.