Sauricola

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Rhabditida
Rhabditina

Cyathostominea

Sauricola Chapin, 1924

Type species of the genus: Sauricola sauricola Chapin, 1924

Synonyms:

General Characteristics:

Length about 10 mm, head about 140 um diam.
Cuticle 30 um thick with coarse transverse striae.
Buccal capsule small, shallow, surrounded by two leaf-crowns.
Cuticle surrounding mouth forming a short mouth collar, limited behind by an annular constriction. Six circumoral papillae. Lateral papillae
stout, apparently with terminal organ; submedian dorsal and ventral papillae more slender, projecting beyond surface of cuticle,sharply angulate before apex.
Excretory pore behind the esophagus. Cervical groove and papillae absent.
Esophagus cylindrical, about twice as long as thick; nerve ring at posterior third of esophagus.

Female:

Vulva just before anus, vagina short, ovejector, and sphincter muscles
not developed, uteri two and convergent.
Eggs oval with thin shells, not embryonated within uterus.

Ref: Chapin, 1924

Males:

Bursa short, dorsal, and lateral portions of membrane not separated, preanal bulla present, enclosing two slender prebursal papillae.
Dorsal ray quadridigitate, externodorsal slender, postero-lateral and medio-lateral stout, subequal. extenio-lateral more slender, ventrals subequal, stout, separated to
base.
Spicules 2.5 mm long, slender, simple,
Gubenaculum small, simple.

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