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Female:
- Didelphic-amphidelphic. Ovaries moderately developed with
oocytes first in two or more rows, then in only one row.
- Oviduct 1.1-1.5 times body diameter long, consisting of a
slender distal region of prismatic cells and a well-developed
proximal pars dilatata with lumen inside.
- Sphincter between oviduct and tripartite, convoluted uterus.
- Vagina extending inwards 38-44% of body diameter: pars
proximalis with almost straight walls surrounded by weakly developed
musculature, pars refringens of two adjacent trapezoidal,
sclerotized pieces , and pars distalis 3-4 um long.
- Vulva slightly postequatorial, a transverse slit.
- Caudal pores one pair, at the middle of tail, one subdorsal,
another lateral.
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Males:
- Genital system diorchic,Diorchic, testes opposed.
- An ad-cloacal pair of supplements and a series of 14-18, almost
contiguous ventromedian supplements
- Spicules dorylaimid, 4.9-5.5 times as long as wide,
1.5-1.8 times the body
diameter at level of the cloacal aperture
Lateral guiding piece 13-14 um long, tapering in its posterior
third.
- Caudal region basically similar but either straighter or
slightly curved ventrad at the end.
Ref: Vazifeh et al., 2023
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Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:
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