Nugininema, Smales, 2016

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 : 17

3.5 Genus NUGININEMA Smales, 2016 ( Fig. 5 )

Type and sole species: Nugininema titokis Smales, 2016 .

Hosts: Muridae , Murinae ( Rodentia ).

Host site: small intestine.

Distribution: Papua New Guinea.

Original diagnosis: Heligmonellidae , Nippostrongylinae. Synlophe well developed with 9-10 (anterior body) to 17 (midbody) continuous pointed longitudinal ridges, ventral ridge and adjacent right ventral ridge hypertrophied anteriorly; axis of orientation from right ventral to left dorsal side in anterior (sic) at about 50 ° to sagittal plane, axis subfrontal at mid body. Bursa dissymmetrical, right lobe larger, pattern of rays 1-3-1, dorsal ray divided distally to branching of rays 8. Parasites of murines, Rattini, from the island of New Guinea [ 38].

Figures

Figure 5. Genus Nugininema Smales, 2016. Body sections. A–D. Nugininema titokis Smales, 2016. A, B within proximal body. A male. B female. C, D, at midbody. C male, D female. Abbreviations: co, comarete. Source: A–D redrawn from [38].