- Body length up to 120 mm, greatest diameter 3 mm.
- Head 0.5 mm. in diameter, lips twice as broad at base as high,
somewhat rounded.
- Cuticle transversely striated at intervals of 6um.. Body without
alae.
- Intestinal caecum slightly more than half length of, and
about one-fourth as thick as, the esophagus.
- Esophagus 6.6% of the total body length.
- Posterior terminus of body mucronate.
- Anus subterminal.
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Male:
- Spicules subequal in length (1.4 and 1.3 mm.), one much thinner
(28um) than the other (85um.
- Cloaca about 150 um in front of the posterior extremity.
- Posterior to cloaca are five pairs of papillae and two single
glandular papilliform structures,
- Anterior to cloaca is a transverse sinuous line of five papillae
and, extending anteriorly from the second and fourth papillae of this
row are two files, each of 16 papillae,
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Female:
- Vulva a transverse slit just anterior to mid-body.
- Vagina about 4 mm. long, uteri double and convergent,
reaching nearly to
posterior extremity of worm, ovaries intricately coiled about the
uteri throughout their length.
- Anus about 1 mm.from tail tip.
- Eggs 114-142 by 71-85 um with thick smooth shell.
Ref: Chapin, 1924
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