Revision of the genera of Heligmonellidae (Nematoda, Heligmosomoidea), parasitic in Muridae from New Guinea
Author
Durette-Desset, Marie-Claude
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université,
Author
Digiani, María Celina
CONICET-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina & División Zoología Invertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata,
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Parasite
2023
Paris, France
2023-12-20
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2023058
journal article
10.1051/parasite/2023058
1776-1042
PMC10732140
38117273
12628842
DC25665A-E218-496B-974E-B813F69395E5
3.3 Genus
MONTISTRONGYLUS
Smales & Heinrich, 2010
(
Fig. 3
)
Type
species:
Montistrongylus ingati
Smales & Heinrich, 2010
.
Hosts:
Muridae
,
Murinae
(
Rodentia
).
Host site:
small intestine.
Distribution:
Papua New Guinea
.
Other species:
Montistrongylus giluwensis
Smales, 2011
;
Montistrongylus karungi
Smales, 2012
;
Montistrongylus kaindiensis
Smales, 2015
.
Original diagnosis:
Nippostrongylinae
. Synlophe with up to 15 small pointed ridges, left ventral ridges largest: axis of orientation of ridges from ventral right to dorsal left, 55
°
from sagittal axis at mid body, lacking careen. Bursa slightly asymmetrical, right lobe larger, dorsal lobe about same length as lateral lobes. Pattern of bursal rays 3-2. Rays 8 asymmetrical, left ray longer. Dorsal ray divided distal to level of branching of rays 8 from dorsal trunk. Parasites of hydromyine murids
[
45
].
3.3.1 Analysis of data and difficulties encountered
In the four species described, a careen is absent and the ridges are grouped into two or three sets alternating with two or three ridge-free spaces. Herein, for the description of the synlophe of each species, the ridge sets will be numbered (set 1, set 2, set 3) clockwise starting from the left (set 1). Axis of orientation described as oblique all along body by Smales & Heinrich [
45
].