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Nugininema Smales, 2016, New Genus
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Nugininema New Genus
Definition. 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 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.
Type species Nugininema titokis
Etymology. The genus is named from the Pidgin language for New Guinea,
Notes
Published as part of Smales, L. R., 2016, The gastrointestinal helminths of Rattus niobe (Rodentia: Muridae) with descriptions of two new genera and three new species (Nematoda) from Papua New Guinea and Papua Indonesia, pp. 183-197 in Zootaxa 4117 (2) on page 189, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4117.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/264715
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Biodiversity
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Nematoda
- Order
- Rhabditida
- Family
- Heligmonellidae
- Genus
- Nugininema
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nugininema Smales, 2016