Nippostrongylus

 

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Classification:

         Chromadorea

Chromadoria

         Rhabditida

Rhabditina

             Infraorder Rhabditomorpha
                  Heligmosomoidea
       Heligmonellidae
                    Nippostrongylinae
                  Nippostrongylus Lane, 1923
      

    Synonyms:
     

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Characteristics of the genus:

 

 

 

 

Females:

Ref: Hasegawa aet al., 2017

  
 

Males:  


Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:
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Distribution:

Except for the cosmopolitan N. brasiliensis which is parasitic in commensal rats, the genus Nippostrongylus is endemic in the regions from the Malay Peninsula to Australia. Hasegawa et al (2017) speculate that the endemic Nippostrongylus spp. have speciated in that insular or isolated environment. Their hosts are mostly new endemic murines of the respective areas.

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Feeding:

Intesatinal parasites of murines. rodents of the family Muridae, Old World rats and mice.

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Life Cycle:

 

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References:

Durette-Desset, M.C. 1970. Le genre Nippostrongylus Lane, 1923 (Nématode-Héligmosomatide). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee, 45:815-821.

Hasegawa, H., Dewi, K., Fitriana, Y., Asakawa, M. 2017.  Nippostrongylus smalesae sp. nov. (Nematoda: Heligmonellidae) collected from Maxomys whiteheadi (Rodentia: Muridae) of Sumatra, Indonesia.  Zootaxa 4323:579-585.

  

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Revised: October 19, 2024.