Xyala striata

Xyala striata	Contents	Rev: 06/24/2025
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Body attenuating towards both ends.
Head round and slightly set off, with cephalic capsule.
Cuticle with coarse transverse bands and longitudinal ridges, lateral differentiation lacking.
Amphids 15% of the corresponding body diameter, circular, simple, 9 umm from the anterior end.
Buccal cavity posteriorly conical and unarmed.
Six inner labial setae 8 um long and 6 outer labial setae 0.7 cephalic diameters long. 4 cephalic setae 0.6 cephalic diameters long, in posterior region of cephalic capsule.
Six subcephalic setae 28 um long at 75 um from the anterior end.
Pharynx slender and cylindrical.
Spinneret present.
Tail 3.1 abd long, cylindrical with a truncated posterior tip.

	Females: Monodelphic prodelphic, ovary outstretched Ref: Riera et al, 2012
Xyala striata A: Female anterior; B: Female posterior; C: Male posterior. Scale Bar: A,B = 17um; C=25um Drawings from Riera et al., 2012
Males: Diorchic with opposed testes. Spicules 0.6 cbd long, paired, short and arcuated, with a round capitulum. Gubernaculum 0.3 cbd long, tubular, with a dorsoventrally directed apophysis. Precloacal supplements lacking. No caudal setae
Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click: