Heligmonella kurenzovi male
Super-family: Heligmosomoidea
Family: Heligmonellidae
Sub-family: Heligmonellinae
Synonymy
= Longistriata kurenzovi (Sadovskaya, 1952)
Author and date: (Sadovskaya, 1952), Durette-Desset, 1971
Parasite of Lepus mandschuricus and Lepus timidus, Leporidae, Mammalia
Locality: (USSR)
Location: no specified
Collection : collection of the departement of Parasitology, London school of Hygiene and tropical Medecine
Reference :
Sadovskaya, 1952
Durette-Desset, 1971
Lepus timidus (host)
Caudal bursa of Heligmonella kurenzoni male, ventral view.
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Classification
Generality of the parasite
Whole body
- Length of the body : 4001 to 5000 µm ; 5001 to 6000 µm
- Width of the nematode at midbody : 151 to 175 µm ; 176 to 200 µm
Cephalic characters
- Presence of cephalic vesicle : Yes
- Width of the cephalic vesicle (in middle) : 51 to 60 µm
- Number of internal labial papillae : ?
- Number of external labial papillae : ?
- Presence of cephalic papillae : ?
- Length of the cephalic vesicle : 81 to 90 µm ; 91 to 100 µm ; 101 to 110 µm
Anterior part
- Position of the nervous ring from the anterior end : 251 to 300 µm
- Position of the excretory pore from the anterior end : ?
- Position of deirides from the anterior end : ?
- Length of the oesophagus : 351 to 400 µm
- Ratio length of the oesophagus over the total length : 6 to 10%
- Excretory glands : Not visible
Synlophe at midbody
- Number of cuticular ridges at midbody : 11 to 15
- Size of ridges : ?
- Axis of orientation of the synlophe : ?
- Right axis : ?
- Left axis : ?
- Appearance of ridges : ?
- Nature of the ridges : Continuous ridges ; Longitudinal ridges
- Number of dorsal ridges at midbody : ?
- Disappearance of the cuticular ridges in the female : non applicable
- Disappearance of the cuticular ridges in the male : At the level of the caudal bursa
- Only a general axis : ?
- Number of ventral ridges at midbody : ?
- Presence of a gradient of size of the cuticular ridges : ?
Reproductive tract of the female
- Presence of egg : non applicable
- Length of egg : non applicable
- Width of egg : non applicable
- Number of egg : non applicable
- Length of vestibule : non applicable
- Sex of the nematode : Male
- Length of vagina vera : non applicable
- Length of the tail : non applicable
- Position of the vulva from the posterior end : non applicable
- Length of anterior sphincter : non applicable
- Length of anterior uterus : non applicable
- Presence caudal pointed tail : non applicable
- Length of anterior infundibulum : non applicable
Reproductive tract of the male
- Sex of the nematode : Male
- Height of the division of the dorsal ray : Posterior third
- Length of the rays 9 in ratio to the rays 10 : 9 = 10
- Diagram of rays 2 to 6 (left lobe) : non applicable
- Disposition of types of bursal arrangements in lateral lobes : similar diagram left ant right
- Length of rays 2 to 6 : 2 = 3 ; 3<4 ; 4>5 ; 5>6
- Birth of rays 8 : On thedorsal ray
- Length of the rigth spicule : 501 to 600 µm
- Length of the left spicule : 501 to 600 µm
- Shape of the spicules : Sharp
- Number of tips of the spicules : 1
- Shape of the genital cone : Not marked ; Triangular
- Length of genital cone : 26 to 50 µm
- Presence of papilla 0 on anterior lip of genital cone : Yes
- Presence of papillae 7 on posterior lip of genital cone : Yes
- Presence of gubernaculum : Yes
- Width of gubernaculum : 51 to 60 µm
- Asymmetry of the caudal bursa : non applicable
- Height of the asymmetry : non applicable
- Width of asymmetry : non applicable
- Diagram of rays 2 to 6 (right lobe) : non applicable
- Dorsal lobe visible : ?
- Diagram of basic pattern of the caudal bursa (lobes left and right are symmetric) : Type 2-3
- Tendency of the diagram ( lobes left and right are symmetric) : Tendency 2-2-1
- Tendency of diagram (left lobe) : non applicable
- Tendency of diagram (right lobe) : non applicable
- Presence of the prebursal rays (= rays 1) : Yes
- Approaching rays 5 to 6 : No
- Ratio length between ray 8 and dorsal ray : Dorsal ray = ray 8
- Position of the rays 9 : After the division
- Form of gubernaculum : Well marked: oval form
- Length of gubernaculum : 51 to 60 µm ; 61 to70 µm
- Symmetry of the caudal bursa : Symmetric