Hughjonestrongylus Digiani & Durette-Desset, 2014

Durette-Desset, Marie-Claude & Digiani, María Celina, 2015, Taxonomic revision of the Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda, Heligmonellidae) parasites of Muridae from the Australasian region. The genus Odilia Durette-Desset, 1973, Parasite (Paris, France) 22, pp. 1-12 : 8

III- Genus Hughjonestrongylus Digiani & Durette-Desset, 2014 ( Figs. 2C and 3F )

Type species: Hughjonestrongylus ennisae (Smales & Heinrich, 2010) Digiani & Durette-Desset, 2014 .

Hosts: Muridae (Murinae).

Host site: Small intestine.

Distribution: Papua New Guinea, Papua Indonesia.

Definition: Heligmonellidae , Nippostrongylinae. Synlophe with 20–30 ridges in both sexes. Ridges continuous. Careen absent. Ridges markedly unequal in size. Left ridge distinct from ridge 1’. Mid-left and mid-right ridges largest. Left ridges generally larger than right ones. Presence of left-dorsal and right-ventral cuticular dilatations. Axis(es) of orientation oblique. Characteristic bursal pattern of types 1–4 and 2–3. Dorsal ray divided within distal half. Spicules thick, each one ending in one or three tips. SpL/BL 10–15%.

Other species: Hughjonestrongylus amplicaudae (Smales & Heinrich, 2010) Digiani & Durette-Desset, 2014 , Hughjonestrongylus implexus (Smales, 2008) n. comb., Hughjonestrongylus mirzai (Smales, 2009) Digiani & Durette-Desset, 2014 , Hughjonestrongylus singauwaensis (Smales & Heinrich, 2010) Digiani & Durette-Desset, 2014 , Hughjonestrongylus . sp. of Smales [ 24].

Figures

Figure 2. Synlophes at mid-body of the genera treated in this work. Type-species. (A) Odilia (O. mackerrasae), male. (B) Hasegawanema n. gen. (Hasegawanema mamasaense n. comb), female. C, Hughjonestrongylus (H. ennisae), female. (D) Chisholmia n. gen. (Chisholmia bainae n. comb.), male. (E) Lesleyella n. gen. (Lesleyella wauensis n. comb.), female. (F) Sanduanensis n. gen. (Sanduanensis dividua n. comb.), female. (G) Parasabanema (P. szalayi), male. (H) Equilophos n. gen. (Equilophos polyrhabdote n. comb.), female. Abbreviations: 1, 1’, 2’, 3’: ridges 1, 1’, 2’, 3’; AO: axis of orientation of the ridges; c: careen; G: gap; lr: left ridge; n: last dorsal ridge; n’: last ventral ridge; rr: right ridge. A, H, modified from [5]. B, modified from [16]. C, G, modified from [26]. D, modified from [1]. E, modified from [20]. F, modified from [25]. Scale-bars: 50 mm.

Figure 3. Synlophes of the genera treated in this work. Other species. (A) within anterior part of body, Chisholmia mawsonae n. comb., male. (B–H) at mid-body: (B) Hasegawanema mallomyos n. comb., female. (C) Hasegawanema maxomyos n. comb., male. (D) Hasegawanema moatense n. comb., female. (E) Hasegawanema sulawesiense n. comb., female. (F) Hughjonestrongylus implexus n. comb., female. (G) Parasabanema praeputiale n. comb., female. (H) Equilophos similis n. comb., male. Abbreviations: 1, 1’, 2’, 3’: ridges 1, 1’, 2’, 3’; c: careen; G: gap; lr: left ridge; rr: right ridge. A, modified from [5]. B, modified from [12]. C–E, modified from [16]. F, modified from [21]. G, modified from [11]. H, modified from [22]. Scale-bars: 50 mm.