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- Body posture nearly straight, only slightly ventrally curved.
- Body plump, but conspicuously narrowed in anterior part of
neck towards the very narrow lip region.
- Lip region somewhat angular, set off by constriction.
- Amphid stirrup-shaped, the aperture about half as wide
as the lip region.
- Cuticle thick, especially on tail, and with minute
transverse striae
- Lateral and ventral hypodermal glands and pores
conspicuous.
- Lateral pores and glands in two rows, laterosubventral
and laterosubdorsal in position.
- Odontostyle with large dorsal aperture, comprising 60%
(56-63) of the stylet length. Ventral "closed" part of stylet not
circular in cross section, but laterally compressed.
- Base of odontostyle apparently not "forked" (i.e.
without basal collar for attachment of odontophore).
- No guiding ring or plicated guiding sheath visible.
- Esophagus typically dorylaimoid, gradually widened into
basal bulb slightly beyond middle of neck. Basal bulb very granular
in appearance.
- Three oblong cardiac glands at base of oesophagus mostly
quite distinct.
- Esophageal-intestinal junction surrounded by tissue
containing several cells, associated with the three cardiac glands.
Cardia conspicuous, consisting of a broad hemispherical basal part
largely embedded in intestinal tissue, with an elongate-conoid
distal part projecting into lumen of intestine.
- .Prerectum very variable in length,
- Tail conoid, with rounded terminus, tending to be very
slightly subdigitate.
- Dorsal and other pores conspicuous on the tail.
Female:
- Didelphic, vulva transverse, post-equatorial, the vulval
lips distinctly sclerotized.
- Ovejector apparently not strongly demarcated.
- Uterus short, undifferentiated, distinctly separated
from the oviduct by a sphincter.
- Gravid females with one, two or three uterine eggs.
- Egg shell thick (up to 6 um) along sides of egg, but
mostly very thin (about 1 um) around each end of egg.
Male:
- similar to female.
- Reproductive system typically dorylaimoid.
- Spicules 63 um long
- No gubernaculum or lateral guiding pieces.
- Adanal pair of supplements close to anus, and a
ventromedian (more or less contiguous) series of 18, anterior to the
cloaca.
From Heyns, 1988
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