Paracooperia serrata		Contents		Rev 11/03/2026
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 Classification

Chromadorea

Chromadoria

Rhabditida

  Rhabditina

   Trichostronglyloidea

    Cooperiidae

Cooperiinae

Paracooperia serrata (Monning, 1931) Travassos, 1935

 

Type species of the genus

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Morphology and Anatomy:

• Body length 5-7 mm
• Cephalic vesicle present, 22-34 um long
• Excretory pore and cervical papillae 250 300 um from the anterior end
• Esophagus 330-385 um long
• 10 longitudinal cuticular ridges

Males:

• 5-6 mm long
• Spicules 230-240 um long;.each spicule with one main stem and two shorter branches, one of branches has 5-6 ridges;
  Gubernaculum absent
• Genital cone complex

Females:

• 6-7.5 mm long
• Vulva opens 1.44-1.55 mm from posterior
• Vulval flap present
• Eggs (in uterus) 58-63 x 34 38 um
• Tail 127-141 um long;

Ref: Gibbons, 1978

Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:

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Distribution:

Paracooperia serrata was described from the small intestine of Thomson's Gaxelle (Gazella thomsoni) in the Serengetti region of Tanzania

 

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Economic Importance:

A parasite of the small intestine antelope

 

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Hosts:

Paracooperia serrata is a parasite of Thomson's gazelle

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Feeding:

Paracooperia serrata parasitizes the anterior part of the small intestine and sometimes in the abomasum of cattle (Snyder et al., 2020).

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Life Cycle:

 

For Ecophysiological Parameters for this species, click	If species level data are not available, click for genus level parameters

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Damage:

 

 

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Management:

Anthelminthics

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References:

Albrechtova, M., Langrova, I., Vadlech, J., Spakulova, M. 2020. A revised checklist of nematodes (Trichostrogyloidea), common parasites of wild and domestic ruminants. Helminthologia 57: 280-287.

Beveridge, I., Spratt, D.M.  and Durette-Desset, M-C. 2014. Order Strongylida (Railliet and Henry, 1913). In Schmidt-Raesa, A. (ed). Handbook of Zoology: Gastroctricha, Cycloneurelia and Gnathifera. Vol 2. Nematoda. De Gruyter, Berlin

Gibbons, L.M. 1978. Revision of the genus Paracooperia Travassos, 1935 (Nematoda: Trichostrongylidae). Journal of Helminthology 52, 231-249

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