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Classification:

         Chromadorea

Chromadoria

         Rhabditida

Rhabditina

             Infraorder Rhabditomorpha

                  Heligmosomoidea

       Heligmonellidae

                    Nippostrongylinae

                  Odilia Durette-Desset, 1973

      

Type species of the genus: Odilia mackerrasae Mawson, 1961

    Synonyms:
     

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Morphology and Anatomy:

The genus Odilia was originally described with synlophe oriented from right-ventral line to left-dorsal line; hypertrophied lateral ridges; left-dorsal ridge almost as long as left-ventral ridge tending to the formation of a small careen.  Gradient in ridge size latero-median or ridges very numerous and of similar size (Durette-Desset, 1971).  Based on the variability of the synlophe and the presence or absence of a careen, Durette-Desset and Digiani (2015) seperated the species originally described as genus Odilia into 8 genera:

Odilia (sensu stricto) Durette-Desset, 2013

Hughjonestrongylus Digiani & Durette-Desset, 2014

Parasabanema Smales & Heinrich, 2010

Hasegawanema Durette-Desset & Digiani, 2015

Chisholmia Durette-Desset & Digiani, 2015

Lesleyella Durette-Desset & Digiani, 2015

Sanduanensis Durette-Desset & Digiani, 2015

Equilophos Durette-Desset & Digiani, 2015

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Distribution:

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Feeding:

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Biology and Ecology:

Intestinal parasites of Muridae (mice, rats, gerbils and other rodents).

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Life Cycle:

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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. 1971. Essai de classification des N�matodes H�ligmosomes. Corr�lation avec la pal�obiog�ographie des h�tes. Memoires du Museum national d�Histoire naturelle Nouvelle Serie, Serie A, Zoologie, 49: 1-126.

Durette-Desset M-C. 1973. Note rectificative sur le genre Austrostrongylus (Nematode). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee, 48, 517�518.

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 2015:22:32.  doi: 10.1051/parasite/2015032

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.

  D.M. Spratt ^{‡}

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Revised: March 08, 2024.