Melomystrongylus, Smales, 2009

Durette-Desset, Marie-Claude & Digiani, María Celina, 2023, Revision of the genera of Heligmonellidae (Nematoda, Heligmosomoidea), parasitic in Muridae from New Guinea, Parasite (Paris, France) 30 (63), pp. 1-34 : 5

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https://doi.org/ 10.1051/parasite/2023058

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DC25665A-E218-496B-974E-B813F69395E5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13890363

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03ED87FE-FF85-FFC2-2440-FE72FBC7FC21

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Felipe

scientific name

Melomystrongylus
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3.1 Genus MELOMYSTRONGYLUS Smales, 2009 View in CoL

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Type species: Melomystrongylus sepikensis Smales, 2009 .

Hosts: Muridae , Hydromyinae ( Rodentia ).

Site: small intestine.

Distribution: Papua New Guinea.

Other species: Melomystrongylus somoroensis Smales & Heinrich, 2010 .

Original diagnosis: Trichostrongyloidea : Heligmonellidae : Nippostrongylinae . Synlophe well developed with pointed ridges; in midbody axis of orientation of ridges passing through ventral right and dorsal left sides inclined about 65 ° from sagittal axis in anterior body, lacking clear orientation in mid and hind body. Ventral ridge 5’ hypertrophied anteriorly. Bursa asymmetrical with larger left lobe. Dorsal ray divided distal to level of branching of rays 8 from dorsal trunk. Parasites of hydromyine murids [ 30].

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