Sanduanensis, Durette-Desset & Digiani, 2015

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

VI- Genus Sanduanensis n. gen. ( Fig. 2F )

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Type and sole species: Sanduanensis dividua (Smales, 2014) n. comb.

Hosts: Muridae ( Rodentia ).

Host site: Small intestine.

Distribution: Papua New Guinea.

Etymology: The genus is named after one of the localities where the species was found.

Definition: Heligmonellidae , Nippostrongylinae. Synlophe with 16 ridges in both sexes. Dorsal ridges continuous, ventral ridges discontinuous. Careen absent. Ridges unequal in size, median to small. Left ridge distinct from ridge 1’. Mid-left and mid-right ridges largest. Absence of cuticular dilatations. Characteristic bursal pattern of type 1–4. Dorsal ray divided within proximal half. Each spicule ending in one tip. SpL/ BL: 13.2%.

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.