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- Body cylindrical, 1.1-1.3 mm long.
- Cuticle is very finely striated.
- Eight longitudinal rows of very short and fine somatic setae .
- Head region bluntly rounded with body annuli extending to anterior.
- Six internal and six external labial sensillae are
papilliform; internal labial papillae are on the lip edge (inconspicuous
under light microscope), externallabial papillae are prominent and
located just in front of the cephalic setae.
- Four cephalic setae .
- Multispiral fovea amphidialis, 1 .5 whorls.
- Stoma with one large dorsal two small subventral teeth.
- Pharynx anteriorly slightly swollen by the muscles supporting
the tooth . Short cylindrical corpus with strong elongated terminal bulb
with three partitions lined and thick cuticlar lining of the cuticle
(postcorpus 60% of pharynx length) .
- Nerve ring located just in front of elongated bulb.
Females:
- Didelphic, amphidelphic with reflexed ovaries llocated at the left
of the intestine .
- Small vulva, cuticular vagina vera and short vagina uterina .
- Tail without indentation
- Prominent spinneret .
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Papillonema danieli : Anterior body; male and female tails.
Adapted from Verschelde et al., 1995 |
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Males:
- Monorchic, testis outstretched on the right of the intestine.
- Spicules arcuate with large capitulum and fine velum.
- Gubernaculum 25-28 um long .
- Usually three, seldom four, ventral precloacal supplements,
equidistant from each other with a papilliform base and protrusible
pointed tip.
- Anterior to the precloacal supplements, there is a ventral row
of about ten local thickenings of the cuticle resembling inplantation
sites of setae, but no somatic setae are visible .
- Tail indented, prominenty spinneret.
Ref: Verschelde et al. (1995)
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