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Female:
- Moderately slender (a=29-33), 2.16-2.46-mm long.
- Cuticle was two-layered, 2 to 3-um thick at the anterior region,
3.5 to 4um in mid-body, and 6.5 to 8.5um on the tail;.
- Lateral chord occupying 21 to 27% of mid-body diameter.
- Body pores obscure.
- Lip region truncate, offset by a distinct constriction,
1.9 to 2.3 times broader than high .21-26% of body diameter at the
neck base;
- Lips were withprotruding labial and cephalic papillae.
- Amphid fovea cup-like,, occupying up to one-third (28-33%)
of lip-region diameter.
- Cheilostom a truncate cone.
- Odontostyle was relatively long and slender, about twice
the lip-region diameter,aperture 20-25% of odontostyle length.
- Odontophore rod-like, nearly equal length of
odontostyle. T
- Pharynx conspicuously muscular, slender portion enlarging
gradually, and the basal expansion occupying 47-52% of neck length;
- Pharyngo-intestinal junction a well-developed, conical
cardiaenveloped by the intestinal wall.
- Genital system was didelphic-amphidelphic, with both branches
equally developed, anterior 10 to 13%, posterior 9 to 14% of
the total body length. Ovaries reflexed; a narrowing surrounded by a
muscular phincter between oviduct and the uterus.
- Vagina extended inward, occupying 39 to 46% of body diameter:
pars proximalis surrounded by moderately developed circular
musculature; pars refringens consisting of two trapezoidal
sclerotized pieces, pars distalis measured 4.5 to 6.5-um long.
- Vulva a transverse slit. P
- The tail conical, gradually tapering to a finely rounded
tip, and strongly curved ventrad, with abundant saccate- or
blister-like bodies inside the cuticle in its anterior third;
- Two pairs of caudal pores, one subventral, another subdorsal, at
about one anal-body diameter behind hyaline terminal 22-28% of the
total tail length.
Ref: Nguyen and Pena-Santiago, 2020
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