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Siender nematodes, small to medium
size.
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Outer layer of the cuticle thin and smooth.
Inner layer thicker, with irreguJar outline and detached from the
outer layer; radial refractive elements abundant, very conspicuous
at the tail.
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Lateral chord occupying about one-third of
the midbody diameter.
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Lateral pores coarse, arranged in two
rows and located in the borders of the lateral chord.
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Lip region cap-like, with angular contour,
offset from body contour by a marked constriction, twice as wide as
high.
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Lips moderately separated; their inner parts
prominent.
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Cephalic and labial papillae distinct.
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Arnphid funnel-shaped, aperture at level of
the cephalic constriction, aperture two-thirds of the lip region
diameter.
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Stoma a truncate cone with sclerotized walls
surrounding oral aperture.
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Guiding ring simple, slightly refractive.
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Odontostyle very thin, slightly dorsally
curved, slightly shorter than the lip region diameter.
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Odontophore slightly ventrally arched and
surrounded by esophageal tissue.
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Esophagus sIender and weakly muscular
anteriorly and with a part and a cylindrical or pear-shaped basal
bulb that occupies about 1/5 of total length of esophagus.
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Cardia bilobed and surrounded by
intestinal tissue.
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Prerectum very long, its length about 22-29 x
anal body diameter; rectum slightly longer 1 x anal body diameter.
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Genital system amphidelphic-didelphic.
Ovaries reflexed, short, with few oocytes. No sperm in genital
system, probably parthenogenetic.
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Vagina conical or pear-shaped; vulva a
transverse slit.
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Tail shorter than anal body diameter;
rounded-conoid to hemispherical.
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Two pairs of caudal pores, one subdorsal
anteriorly located and the other almost Iateral at the middle of the
tail.
Ref:: Peralta and Pena-Santiago (1996).