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Melomystrongylus Smales 2009, new genus
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Melomystrongylus, new genus
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.
Type species. – Melomystrongylus sepikensis, new species.
Notes
Published as part of Smales, L. R., 2009, Helminths Of Melomys Rufescens And Melomys Spp. (Muridae: Hydromyinae) From Papua New Guinea With The Descriptions Of A New Genus And Five New Species In The Heligmonellidae (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea), pp. 5-15 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (1) on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5341456
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.5341456 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/7719FFF5FFD1FFCAE11DFFF3FFE9FFCC (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/8B20878DFFD5FFCEE007FC8FFF31FAFF (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Smales
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Nematoda
- Order
- Strongylida
- Family
- Heligmonellidae
- Genus
- Melomystrongylus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melomystrongylus Smales, 2009