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Body slender
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Cuticle smooth
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Lip region continuous with body contour
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Mouth cavity inconspicuous
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Two circles of six sensorial pits and a circle of
four sensorial pits, conforming to the 6-6-4 arrangement of cephalic
sensory structures of many nematodes.
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Amphids 2.6-4.6 head diameters from anterior end,
large, stirrup-shaped,
with slit to oval openings.
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Esophagus short, enlarging at a point beyond 80%
of its length.
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Tail long and slender.
Female:
Male:
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Monorchic, spicules large, tubular
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Four to five mid-ventral preanal papillae.
Ref: Clausi and Vinciguerra, 1995.
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