Males:
- Body filiform, whitish, 2.72-3.59 mm long.
- Cuticle smooth.
- Head rounded. Oral aperture very small, almost circular,
surrounded by small ring of elevated tissue.
- Cephalic papillae small, in two circles; outer circle of four
submedian pairs, inner circle of four single submedian papillae and
a pair of lateral papillae.
- Amphids rather small.
- Esophagus with slight inflation at anterior end; posterior
portion of esophagus with well-developed, long esophageal gland with
large cell nucleus at middle.
- Posterior end of body blunt, with broad, U-shaped, lobular
mound and with one pair of preanal and two pairs of postanal very
flat, hardly visible caudal papillae.
- Spicules brownish, slender, needle-like, almost equally
long with somewhat expanded proximal and sharply pointed distal
tips; length of spicules 6% of body length.
- Gubernaculum narrow, with its proximal third dorsally
bent;
- Spicules and gubernaculum well sclerotized
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Female:
- Body red-colored in live specimens and yellowish in smaller;
posterior part of body narrower than anterior.
- Cuticle appears smooth under LM, but SEM shows it is
densely transversely striated
- Oral aperture large, almost circular, surrounded by minute
cephalic papillae arranged in two circles and slightly outlined
lateral amphids; internal circle of papillae of four submedian and
two lateral single papillae, external circle of four submedian
pairs of papillae of equal size and shape
- Eesophagus with anterior bulbous inflation
- Ventriculus present,
- Eesophagus opening into intestine through distinct valve.
- Intestine dark brown, ending blindly, its posterior end
attached by long ligament ventrally to body wall near caudal end;
- Vulva and anus absent.
- Ovaries relatively short, thick, reflexed. Uterus of larger
specimens occupying most of body volume; filled with numerous
spherical eggs .
- Caudal end rounded, with two small, lateral papilla-like
projections .
Ref: Moravecand Justine, 2008
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