Parasabanema Smales & Heinrich, 2010

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 : 8-9

VII- Genus Parasabanema Smales & Heinrich, 2010

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Type species: Parasabanema szalayi Smales & Heinrich, 2010 .

Hosts: Muridae ( Rodentia ).

Host site: Small intestine.

Distribution: New Guinea, Australia.

Definition: Heligmonellidae , Nippostrongylinae. 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. Characteristic bursal pattern of type 1–4. Dorsal ray divided within distal half. Each spicule ending in one tip. SpL/BL: 8%.

Other species: Parasabanema praeputiale (Gibbons & Spratt, 1995) n. comb.

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.