Hughjonestrongylus, Digiani & Durett-Desset, 2014

Smales, Lesley, 2019, Gastrointestinal nematodes of Paramelomys platyops (Rodentia: Muridae) from Papua Indonesia and Papua New Guinea with the descriptions of a new genus and five new species of Heligmonellidae (Nematoda: Trichostrongylina) and a key to the species of Hughjonestrongylus, Zootaxa 4679 (1), pp. 107-125 : 120

Hughjonestrongylus sp 1.

( Fig 66 )

A male and female were collected from a single P. platyops from Wanuma, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, by A. B. Mirza, 2. ii. 1974, BBM NG103708.

A synlophe at the male mid body of 19 ridges arranged in a pattern and number consistent with H. vanimoensis , spicule length of 360 and a dissymmetrical bursa with the left lobe larger were also characteristic of H. vanimoensis . The body length (5000, 7000 compared with 3100, 3300, 4100) and the number of eggs in utero (12 compared with 4–6), however, were not consistent with the specimens being H. vanimoensis . This combination of characters distinguished these worms from all other known species in the genus but provided insufficient data to prepare a complete description.

Figures

FIGURES 65–70. Nippostrongylinae. In all illustrations of the synlophe in transverse section the dorsal aspect of the body is oriented towards the top of the page and the left side of the nematode to the left of the page. The dorsal and ventral (numbers with superscripts) ridges are numbered. Montistrongylus sp. 65. Female, posterior end 69. Female transverse section, mid body; Hughjonestrongylus sp.1; 66. Female, transverse section, mid body. Hughjonestrongylus sp.2; 67. Female, transverse section, mid body. Hasanuddinia sp. 68. Male transverse section, mid body; 70. Gubernaculum and spicule tips, lateral view. Scale bars in µm: 65, 75; 66, 67, 69, 25; 68, 10; 70, 50.