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Four cephalic setae.
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Oval or uni-spiral amphids.
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Stoma elongate, tubular or funnel-shaped, no teeth.
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Esophagus with terminal bulb that has an elongate,
multi-chamber valve and long extension so that the bulb may appear to be
median rather than terminal.
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Females monovarial, prodelphic.
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No spinneret or caudal glands in tail.
The family and genus names literally translate as
clock-stomach. Andrássy (2005) speculates that Cobb provided
the name to the genus Chronogaster because the elongate valve in
the terminal bulb resembles the hands of a clock. Alternatively, the
esophagus with terminal bulb and its elongate extension might be considered
to resemble the pendulum of a clock.
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