Macrostrongylus

 

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Classification:

         Chromadorea

Chromadoria

         Rhabditida

Rhabditina

             Infraorder Rhabditomorpha
                  Heligmosomoidea
       Heligmonellidae
                    Brevistriatinae
                  Macrostrongylus
      
Type species of the genus: Macrostrongylus ratti Ow Yang,  Durette-Desset & Ohbayashi, 1983.

    Synonyms:
     

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Morphology and Anatomy:

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

Macrostrongylus ingens:

Ref. Smales, 2008

 

 

Females:

  • Tail short, conical, ending in knob,
  •  Monodelphic ovijector with vestibuleand sphincter, 
  • vulva elongated to tail tip 
  • Cuticle in front of vulva extending to form a short prepuce or completely surround
    the tail.

  
 

Males:  

  • Bursa symmetrical, dorsal ray symmetrical, divided at each branch dividing again at the distal tip; terminal divisions,
  • Genital cone short, ventral lip lobed.
  • Spicules equal, filiform, tips curved
  • Gubernaculum present

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Distribution:

Described from white-tail rat, Uromys caudimaculatus, in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea

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Feeding:

Intestinal parasites of Uromys caudimaculatus

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Biology and Ecology:

Parasites of rats and other rodents

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Life Cycle:

 

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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

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Management:

 
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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.

Ow Yang, G. K., Durette-Desset, M-C., Ohbayashi. 1983. Sur les nematodes parasites de rongeurs de Malaisie II. Les Trichostrongyloidea. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee 58:467-92.

Smales, L.R. 2008. Three New Species of Heligmonellidae (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) from Melomys, Paramelomys, and Uromys (Rodentia: Muridae) from Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Comp. Parasitol. 75:52-60.

 

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Revised: March 10, 2024.