Parasabanema		Contents		Rev: 05/15/2026
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Classification:

        

 Chromadorea

Chromadoria

         Rhabditida

Rhabditina

             Infraorder Rhabditomorpha

                  Heligmosomoidea

       Heligmonellidae

                    Nippostrongylinae

                  Parasabanema Smales & Heinrich, 2010

 

 Type species of genus: Parasabanema szalayi Smales & Heinrich, 2010

    Synonyms:
     

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Morphology and Anatomy:

•  Synlophe with 22-45 ridges in both sexes. Ridges continuous. Careen absent. Small ridges slightly unequal in size. Mid-left, right-right-dorsal and mid-ventral ridges largest. Right-right-ventral ridges minute. Presence of left-dorsal and right-ventral cuticular dilatations. Axis of orientation oblique.

Ref: Durette-Desset and Digiani, 2015

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Distribution:

Reported from Australia, Papua New Guinea and New Guinea

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Parasabanema

Gastro-intestinal parasites of rodents. Species reported from Paramelomys mollis, P. rubex (Durette-Desset and Digiani, 2023; Smales, 2020

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References:

Durette-Desset, M-C. Digiani, M.C., 2015. Taxonomic revision of the Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda, Heligmonellidae) parasites of Muridae from the Australasian region. The genus Odilia Durette-Desset, 1973. Parasite 22:32

Durette-Desset, M-C. Digiani, M.C., 2023. Revision of the genera of Heligmonellidae (Nematoda, Heligmosomoidea), parasitic in Muridae from New Guinea. Parasite 2023 Dec 20;30:63. doi: 10.1051/parasite/2023058

Smales, L.R. 2020. Gastrointestinal nematodes of Paramelomys levipes and P. mollis (Rodentia: Muridae) from Papua Indonesia and Papua Guinea and the descriptions of three new genera and nine new species (Nematoda). Zootaxa, 4861:544-572.

Smales, L.R., Heinrich, B. 2010. Gastrointestinal nematodes of Paramelomys rubex (Rodentia: Muridae) from Papua Indonesia and Papua New Guinea with the descriptions of three new genera and four new species of Heligmonellidae and Herpetostrongylidae (Nematoda: Trichostrongylina). Zootaxa 2672:1-28.

Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: May 15, 2026.