Pogonomystrongylus		Contents		Rev: 05/18/2026
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		Morphology and Anatomy		Life Cycle
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Classification:

        

 Chromadorea

Chromadoria

         Rhabditida

Rhabditina

             Infraorder Rhabditomorpha

                  Heligmosomoidea

       Heligmonellidae

                    Nippostrongylinae

                  Pogonomystrongylus Smales, 2014

 Type species of genus: Pogonomystrongylus domaensis Smales, 2014

    Synonyms:
     

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Characteristics:

• Synlophe well developed with 7-10 continuous pointed longitudinal ridges, single left ventral ridge hypertrophied: axis of orientation of ridges sub frontal. Bursa asymmetrical, right lobe larger.
• Parasites of hydromyine murids

Ref: Smales, 2014

Emended Diagnosis (Durette-Desset and Digiani, 2023)

• Synlophe without careen. Ten ridges in male, 11 in female. Ridges irregularly spaced, grouped into three sets alternating with three ridge-free spaces. Ridge 1� largest, flanked on both sides by ridge-free spaces. Other ridges small to medium-sized. Slight decreasing gradient in ridge size from right to left on both dorsal and ventral sides. Axis of orientation oblique.
•  Bursal characteristic pattern of type 1-4 in both lobes.

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Distribution:

Reported from Papua New Guinea

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Pogonomystrongylus

Gastro-intestinal parasites of rodents. Species reported from Pogonomys loriae, Paramelomys rubex (Durette-Desset and Digiani, 2023).

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References:

Durette-Desset, M-C. Digiani, M.C., 2023. Revision of the genera of Heligmonellidae (Nematoda, Heligmosomoidea), parasitic in Muridae from New Guinea. Parasite 2023 Dec 20;30:63. doi: 10.1051/parasite/2023058

Smales, L.R., 2014. Gastrointestinal helminths (Cestoda, Chabertiidae and Heligmonellidae) of Pogonomys loriae and Pogonomys macrourus (Rodentia: Muridae) from Papua Indonesia and Papua New Guinea with the description of a new genus and two new species. Zootaxa, 3889:92-106. 

Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: May 18, 2026.