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Females: (free-living phase)
- Body slender, (752-1281 um) slightly ventrally arcuate to straight,
very gradually narrowing toward anterior and posterior body ends.
- Cuticle with fine transverse annuli, six lines in lateral fields
forming five bands, the two marginal and one central are wider.
- Cephalic region with six equally-sized lips, low, anteriorly almost
flat, continuous with body contour.
- Stylet fine, with asymmetrical knobs; Guiding ring appearing
complex, as triple rings.
- DPGO just behind stylet knobs. Corpus anteriorly slender,
posteriorly fusiform with no developed median bulb or valve, isthmus
long, basal bulb spindle-shaped to saccate, with variable length (8-26
um) stem-like extension projecting into intestine,
- Rectum and anus functional.
- Monodelphic, prodelphic, located on left side of intestine, arranged
from anterior as ovary, oviduct, spermatheca, crustaformeria, uterus and
vagina/vulva
- Ovary anteriorly outstretched, anterior part of ovary reflexed in
some specimens,
- Spermatheca axial, elongate ellipsoid, with sperm.
Crustaformeria muti-cellulate. Uterus tubular, short,with moderately
thick walls. PUS absent.
- Vulva a wide transverse slit.
- Tail conical, tip rounded with a mucron
Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:
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Males:
- Common, lbut ess frequent than females. General morphology similar
to females
- Monorchic. Spicules tylenchoid, slender, moderately sclerotised.
- Gubernaculum slightly curved.
- Bursa elongate-ellipsoid with a sharp differentiation at end, 50-59
um long, enveloping tail tip completely (= peloderan).
- Tail conical, ventrally slightly convex with sharp tip
Ref: Bonab et al., 2024
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