Family Ransomnematidae
Revised
10/19/21
Spirurina
Ransomnematoidea
Ransomnematidae
Travassos, 1930
- A family of nematode parasites of millipedes.
- Sexual dimorphism of buccal capsule and esophagus
reduced.
- Mouth opening triangular with base of triangle
ventral in position.
- Esophageal corpus spindle-shaped.
- Male with ventral sucker and two dissimilar unequal
spicules.
- Vulva near posterior third of body.
- Eggs large with thin flexible shell.
- Parasites of South American diplopods.
References
Adamson, M.L. 1983.The genus Ransomnema Artigas,
1926 (Rhigonematidae) in South American diplopods. Systematic Parasitol. 5:
119-129.
Adamson, M.L., Vanwaerebeke. D. 1985. The
Rhigonematida (Nematoda) of Diplopods : reclassification and its cladistic
representation.
Ann. Parasitol. Hum. Comp. 60:685-702.
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