Lesleyella		Contents		Rev: 05/14/2026
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		Morphology and Anatomy		Life Cycle
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Classification:

        

 Chromadorea

Chromadoria

         Rhabditida

Rhabditina

             Infraorder Rhabditomorpha

                  Heligmosomoidea

       Heligmonellidae

                    Nippostrongylinae

                  Lesleyella Durette-Desset & Digiani, 2015

 

 Type species of genus: Lesleyella wauensis (Smales, 2010) Durette-Desset & Digiani, 2015

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Morphology and Anatomy:

•  Synlophe with 14-17 ridges in both sexes. Ridges continuous. Careen absent. Ridges unequal in size, median to small. Left ridge distinct from ridge 1'. Ridge 1', right-dorsal ridges (except right ridge) and ventral-left-ventral ridges largest. Axis of orientation oblique.

Ref: Durette-Desset and Digiani, 2015

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Distribution:

Reported from Papua New Guinea

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Lesleyella

Gastro-intestinal parasites of rodents. Reported from Lorenzimys nouhuysi (Smales, 2010).

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References:

Durette-Desset, M-C. Digiani, M.C., 2015. Taxonomic revision of the Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda, Heligmonellidae) parasites of Muridae from the Australasian region. The genus Odilia Durette-Desset, 1973. Parasite 22:32

Smales, L.R. 2010. The gastrointestinal helminths of Lorentzimys nouhuysi (Rodentia: Muridae) with descriptions of two new genera and three new species (Nematoda) from Papua New Guinea. Journal of Parasitology 96:602-613.

Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: May 14, 2026.