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Males:
- Body cylindrical with rounded triangular head capsule and
conical tail.
- Numerous, thin annuli, becoming narrower posteriorly
- Head capsule smooth, thickly cuticularized,
- Minute outer labial sensilla ljust anterior to level
of the cephalic setae
- Four cephalic, immediately followed by six subcephalic
setae at the anterior edge of amphid fovea;
- Amphids slender, multispiral (two turns)
- Lips not separated. Lip region with a crown of twelve
cheilorhabdia;
- Buccal cavity with small, inconspicuous dorsal tooth and
even smaller subventral teeth.
- Slender, straight pharynx with pyriform endbulb;
cardia large.
- Monorchic;
- Spicules short, slightly arched, thickly cuticularized
spicules without velum,
- Gubernaculum complex,
- No cloaca1 supplements.
- Conical tail with short non-annulated tail end; conspicuous
spinneret; caudal glands extending above the spicules.
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