Histodytes

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Classification:

Chromadorea
Chromadoria
Rhabditida: Spirurina
Dracunculoidea
Guyanemidae

Histodytes Aragort, Alvarez, Iglesias, Leiro & Sanmartin, 2002

Type species of the genus; Histodytes microcellatus Aragort, Alvarez, Iglesias, Leiro & Sanmartin, 2002

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Body long, filiform.
No buccal capsule.
Esophagus in two parts, anterior muscular and posterior glandular, longer and thicker.
Cephalic region with seven pairs of papillae, three forming an inner circle and four an outer circle...

Females:

Vulva in anterior half of the body, but considerably posterior to the end of the esophagus
Viviparous

Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:

Males:

Tail conical with cuticular ornamentation on its ventral surface,
Caudal alae and copulatory plate absent.
Spicules of similar morphology but slightly unequal size

Ref: Aragort et al., 2002

Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Histodytes

Tissue parasite of elasmobranchs

Life Cycle:

For Ecophysiological Parameters for this genus, click

Ecosystem Functions and Services:

Aragort, W., Alvarez, F., Iglesias, R., Leiro, J.,\ and Sanmartin, M.L. 2002. Histodytes microocellatus gen. et sp. nov. (Dracunculoidea: Guyanemidae), a parasite of Raja microocellata on the European Atlantic coast (north-western Spain). Parasitol. Res. 88:932-940.

Histodytes

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