Flannerystrongylus abulus

 

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Classification:

Chromadorea
  Chromadoria
  
     Rhabditida
           Rhabditina
             Infraorder Rhabditomorpha
                 Heligmosomoidea
       Helligmonellidae
                    Nippostyrongylinae
       Flannerystrongylus abulus Smales, 2019

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Morphology and Anatomy:

 

 

Females:

  • 7.2-10 mm long, 119-181 um wide

  • Vulva opens 139-165 um from tail tip; large plug of material covers ventral surface from vulva to tail tip in most specimens

  • Tail may be flexed ventrally.

  • Monodelphic ovejector with short vagina,

  • Tail bluntly conical 41.0–80.0 um long.

  • Eggs thin-shelled ellipsoidal, numerous eggs in utero, 51.0 x 37.4 um

 

Ref:  Smales, 2019

  
 

Males:  

  • Length 5.4-8.5 mm, maximum width 102-148 um. C

  • Bursa asymmetrical, left lobe larger, pattern of rays 2-3, dorsal lobe shorter than laterals, dorsal ray asymmetrical, divided at about 1/3 its length, each branch dividing again at tip, terminal divisions rays 9, 10 symmetrical, rays 8 asymmetrical left ray larger, arising from dorsal trunk at about same level as dorsal ray divides; lateral rays 6 curved dorsally, 4, 5 ventrally, rays 4 largest, rays 2, 3 diverge ventrally, reaching margin of bursa.

  • Genital cone simple, ventral lip longer.

  • Spicules equal, filiform, 440-550 um long, tips simple curved.

  • Gubernaculum not symmetrical, dorsal edge shorter and thicker than ventral edge 28.9 um long..



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

 

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Distribution:

 Described from small intestine of Paramelomys platyops (Muridae) from Supiori Island, Papua, Indonesia

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Feeding:

Parasites of the small intestine of a murid rodent

 

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Biology and Ecology:

An intestinal parasites of rodents in the family Muridae

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Life Cycle:

 

Ecophysiological Parameters:

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Management:

 
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References:

Smales, L. 2019. Gastrointestinal nematodes of Paramelomys platyops (Rodentia: Muridae) from Papua Indonesia and Papua New Guinea with the descriptions of a new genus and five new species of Heligmonellidae (Nematoda: Trichostrongylina) and a key to the species of Hughjonestrongylus. Zootaxa 4679:107-125.

 

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