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Male:
- Body long, vermiform, slender.
- Cuticle thin and mostly smooth, but with irregularly
dispersed striations.
- Anterior end of body conical. Inner and outer labial
sensilla not observed, but presumably present and papilliform;
cephalic sensilla setiform, 2.5-3.0 um long.
- Amphid anterior to cephalic sensilla, with circular external
aperture,
- Stoma narrow; dorsal walls of cheilostome and esophagostome
thickened as an onchiostyle protruding slightly beyond oral
surface.
- Esophagus slender and cylindrical anterior to nerve
ring and enveloped by numerous spherical cells (presumably
neurons) from level of nerve ring; posterior half of esophagus
glandular without musculature; cardia between esophagus and
midgut patially enveloped by overlap of dorsal gland.
- Wwall of anterior and posterior regions of mid-gut filled
with transparent, spherical, intracellular inclusions
- Diorchic, both testes anteriorly directed and outstretched;
anterior testis on right of gut and posterior on left; minute,
cylindroid sperm.
- Spicules paired, each slender, strongly curved ventrad,
- Gubernaculum short, slender, and thin with slight proximal
caudad process.
- Two post-cloacal glands present posterior to spicules,
each with short neck directed anteriorly.
- Precloacal and cervical ventromedian supplements not
observed.
- Tail 15.3 caudal diameters long and conically attenuated,
with three minute, papilliform, ventromedian supplements.
- Terminal spinneret 4.5 un long.
- Three caudal glands, each with distinct nucleus.
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Female:
- Body stout, tapered from midbody toward each end, and curved
ventrad.
- Cuticle thin, smooth, without circumferential striation.
- Inner and outer labial sensilla not observed, but presumably
papilliform; cephalic sensilla setiform,
- Amphid and somatic sensilla not observed.
- Buccal capsule narrow, without stylet-like thickening of
cheilostome or esophagostome.
- Anterior fourth of esophagus cylindrical; lumen with
cuticular lining; remainder of esophagus obscured by ovoid
cells.
- Cardia present.
- Midgut voluminous; cytoplasm of midgut fiIled
with opaque, coarse, granular inclusions.
- Rectum and anus apparently vestigial.
- Amphidelphic and antidromously reflexed.
- Sperm possibly contained in bulge at outside angle of
juncture of ovary and uterus.
- Tail short conical, 2.1 anal diameters long, without caudal
glands.
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