Paraheligmonella interrogans female
Super-family: Heligmosomoidea
Family: Heligmonellidae
Sub-family: Heligmonellinae
Synonymy:
= Heligmodendrium interrogans, Lent and Freitas,1938.
Author and date: (Lent et Freitas,1938), Durette-Desset, 1971, (personal reference n°48 nas)
Parasite of Cercomys cunicularius, Echimyidae, Mammalia
Locality: Chique-Chique, state of Bahia (Brazil)
Location: small intestine
Collection : colleçao helminthologica doinstitudo Oswaldo Cruz
Reference : Lentand Freitas, 1938. In livro jubilar Pr Travassos, Instituto oswaldocruz , 269-273. (personal reference N1423)
Durette-Desset,1971, (personal reference n°48 nas)
Anterior end of Paraheligmonella interrogans.
Reproductive tract of Paraheligmonella interrogans female and detail of the tail.
Classification
Generality of the parasite
Whole body
- Length of the body : 4001 to 5000 µm ; 5001 to 6000 µm ; 6001 to 7000 µm
- Width of the nematode at midbody : 76 to 100 µm ; 101 to 125 µm
Cephalic characters
- Presence of cephalic vesicle : Yes
- Width of the cephalic vesicle (in middle) : 31 to 40 µm
- Number of internal labial papillae : ?
- Number of external labial papillae : ?
- Presence of cephalic papillae : ?
- Length of the cephalic vesicle : 31 to 40 µm ; 41 to 50 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 : 251 to 300 µm
- 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 : ?
- Size of ridges : ?
- Axis of orientation of the synlophe : ?
- Right axis : ?
- Left axis : ?
- Appearance of ridges : On the posterior edge of the cephalic vesicle
- Nature of the ridges : Longitudinal ridges
- Number of dorsal ridges at midbody : ?
- Disappearance of the cuticular ridges in the female : After anus = level of the tail
- Disappearance of the cuticular ridges in the male : non applicable
- 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 : Yes
- Length of egg : 61 to70µm ; 71 to 80 µm ; 81 to 90 µm
- Width of egg : 31 to 35 µm ; 36 to 40 µm ; 41 to 45 µm ; 46 to 50 µm
- Number of egg : ?
- Length of vestibule : 51 to 100 µm
- Sex of the nematode : Female
- Length of vagina vera : 31 to 40 µm
- Length of the tail : 81 to100µm ; 101 to 120 µm
- Position of the vulva from the posterior end : 201 to 250 µm ; 251 to 300µm ; 301 to 350 µm
- Length of anterior sphincter : 31 to 40µm
- Length of anterior uterus : ?
- Presence caudal pointed tail : Yes
- Length of anterior infundibulum : ?
Reproductive tract of the male
- Sex of the nematode : Female
- Height of the division of the dorsal ray : non applicable
- Length of the rays 9 in ratio to the rays 10 : non applicable
- Diagram of rays 2 to 6 (left lobe) : non applicable
- Disposition of types of bursal arrangements in lateral lobes : non applicable
- Length of rays 2 to 6 : non applicable
- Birth of rays 8 : non applicable
- Length of the rigth spicule : non applicable
- Length of the left spicule : non applicable
- Shape of the spicules : non applicable
- Number of tips of the spicules : non applicable
- Shape of the genital cone : non applicable
- Length of genital cone : non applicable
- Presence of papilla 0 on anterior lip of genital cone : non applicable
- Presence of papillae 7 on posterior lip of genital cone : non applicable
- Presence of gubernaculum : non applicable
- Width of gubernaculum : non applicable
- 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 : non applicable
- Diagram of basic pattern of the caudal bursa (lobes left and right are symmetric) : non applicable
- Tendency of the diagram ( lobes left and right are symmetric) : non applicable
- Tendency of diagram (left lobe) : non applicable
- Tendency of diagram (right lobe) : non applicable
- Presence of the prebursal rays (= rays 1) : non applicable
- Approaching rays 5 to 6 : non applicable
- Ratio length between ray 8 and dorsal ray : non applicable
- Position of the rays 9 : non applicable
- Form of gubernaculum : non applicable
- Length of gubernaculum : non applicable
- Symmetry of the caudal bursa : non applicable