Equilophos, 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 (32), pp. 1-12 : 9

VIII- Genus Equilophos n. gen. ( Figs. 2H and 3H )

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Type species: Equilophos polyrhabdote (Mawson, 1961) n. comb.

Hosts: Muridae ( Rodentia ).

Host site: Small intestine.

Distribution: Australia.

Etymology: The genus was named in this way because the ridges are of similar size.

Definition: Heligmonellidae , Nippostrongylinae. Synlophe with 35–36 ridges in both sexes. Ridges continuous. Careen absent. Ridges small, of similar size, except mid-right ridges, minute. Axis of orientation almost subfrontal. Characteristic bursal pattern of type 1–4. Each spicule ending in one tip. SpL/BL: 10–11%.

Other species: Equilophos similis (Smales, 2009) 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.