Heligmonella limbooliati male
Super-family: Heligmosomoidea
Family: Heligmonellidae
Sub-family: Heligmonellinae
No synonymy
Author and date: Durette-Desset, Diaw and Krishnasamy, 1975.
Parasite of Trichys lipura, Hystricidae, Mammalia.
Locality: Malaisia
Location: small intestine
Collection : Collections of Museum national d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris; n° 41 KL
Reference: Durette-Desset, Diaw and Krishnasamy, 1975. Annales de parasitologie humaine et comparée, 50: 477-491. (personal reference n°83)
Synlophe of Heligmonella limbooliati male at midbody
Caudal bursa of Heligmonella limbooliati male, ventral view.
Caudal bursa of Heligmonella limbooliati male, ventral view.
Caudal bursa of Heligmonella limbooliati male, ventral view.
Extremity of a spicule of Heligmonella limbooliati male
Classification
Generality of the parasite
Whole body
Cephalic characters
- Presence of cephalic vesicle : Yes
- Width of the cephalic vesicle (in middle) : 41 to 50 µm
- Number of internal labial papillae : ?
- Number of external labial papillae : ?
- Presence of cephalic papillae : ?
- Length of the cephalic vesicle : 71 to 80 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 : 351 to 400 µm
- Position of deirides from the anterior end : 351 to 400 µm
- Length of the oesophagus : 351 to 400 µm
- Ratio length of the oesophagus over the total length : 0 to 5%
- Excretory glands : Visible
Synlophe at midbody
- Number of cuticular ridges at midbody : 11 to 15
- Size of ridges : 1 to 10 µm ; 11 to 20 µm ; 21to 30 µm ; 31 to 40 µm
- Axis of orientation of the synlophe : 2 axes
- Right axis : 11 to 20°
- Left axis : 41 to 50°
- Appearance of ridges : On the posterior edge of the cephalic vesicle
- Nature of the ridges : Continuous ridges ; Longitudinal ridges
- Number of dorsal ridges at midbody : 1 to 5
- 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 : non applicable
- Number of ventral ridges at midbody : 6 to 10
- Presence of a gradient of size of the cuticular ridges : Absence of gradient of size
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 : 701 to 800 µm
- Length of the left spicule : 701 to 800 µm
- Shape of the spicules : Sharp ; Winged
- Number of tips of the spicules : 1
- Shape of the genital cone : Form of strip ; Hypertrophied
- Length of genital cone : 126 to 150µm
- Presence of papilla 0 on anterior lip of genital cone : ?
- Presence of papillae 7 on posterior lip of genital cone : ?
- Presence of gubernaculum : Yes
- Width of gubernaculum : 21 to 30 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 : Distinct
- Diagram of basic pattern of the caudal bursa (lobes left and right are symmetric) : Type 2-2-1
- 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: rectangular form
- Length of gubernaculum : 41 to 50 µm
- Symmetry of the caudal bursa : Symmetric