Orientatractis

 

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Morphology and Anatomy Life Cycle
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Classification:

Chromadorea

Chromadoria

Rhabditida

Spirurina

Cosmocercoidea

Atractidae

                          Orientatractis Petter, 1966

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Morphology and Anatomy:

 

  
 
 

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Females:
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Distribution:

Orientatractis spp. are reported from fish and frogs. Species O. hamabatrachos is an intestinal parasite of frogs in New Guinea (Bursey et al., 2014).

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Feeding:

 
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Life Cycle:

The life cycles of Orientatractis and Rondonia have not been determined, Petter (1966) claimed that tortoises became infected only after ataining sexual maturity and wondered if transmission occurred during mating.

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References:

Bursey, C.R., Goldberg, S.R., Kraus, F. 2014. New species of Orientatractis (Nematoda: Atractidae), new species of Rondonia (Nematoda: Atractidae) and other helminths in Austrochaperina basipalmata (Anura: Microhylidae) from Papua New Guinea. Acta Parasitologica 59:115-121.

Petter A.J. 1966. Equilibre des especes dans les populations de nematodes parasites du colon des tortues terrestres. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Series A., Zoologie, 39, 1–252.
Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: October 10, 2022.