Gastrointestinal nematodes of Paramelomys levipes and P. mollis (Rodentia Muridae) from Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea with the descriptions of three new genera and nine new species (Nematoda)
Author
Smales, Lesley
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-10-20
4861
4
544
572
journal article
9024
10.11646/zootaxa.4861.4.4
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1175-5326
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Parasabanema
sp.
(
Fig 10
A–C)
Four
males and the posterior end of one female were collected from three individuals of
P. mollis
from
Bichate
,
Arfak Mountains
,
Papua
Indonesia
by
T
.
Flannery
10. x. 1992
,
AM
W. 53140, W. 53141.
These males had a synlophe of about 30 small even ridges, characteristic of
Parasabanema
spp., as was the morphology of the bursa and spicules. The worms, however, were smaller 2.0–
2.4 mm
long compared with
5.4–8.5 mm
for
P. szalayi
and
3.1–4.3 mm
for
P. sene
and with shorter spicules 320–440, 6% of body length compared with 440–550, 7.2 % for
P. szalayi
and 250–310, 8 % for
P. sene
.
The female vulva opened 55 from the tip of the 20 long tail; the vestibule was the longest element of the ovejector followed by the vagina, 75, the infundibulum, 50, and the sphincter, 30 long. These morphometric differences suggest that the specimens from Bichate represent a new species.