Xericola marocanus male
Super-family : Heligmosomoidea
Family : Heligmonellidae
Sub-family : Heligmonellinae
No synonymy
Type species
Author and date : Durette-Desset, 1974
Parasite of Atlantoxerus getulus, Sciuridae, Mammalia
Locality: Aït-Melloul, Vallée du Draa (Morocco)
Location: small intestine
Collection : collections du Museum national d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris; n° 188 KA
References : Durette-Desset, 1974, Annales de Parasitologie, 49: 201-207 (personal reference n°58)
Atlantoxerusgetulus (host)
Anterior part of Xericola marocanus male, right lateral view.
Synlophe of Xericola marocanus male
Transversal section at the spicules level of Xericola marocanus male.
Caudal bursa of Xericola marocanus male, ventral view.
Detail of rays 8 - 9 -10,of Xericola marocanus male dorsal view.
Genital cone and spicules of Xericola marocanus male, rightlateral view.
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Classification
Generality of the parasite
Whole body
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 : 61 to 70 µm
Anterior part
- Position of the nervous ring from the anterior end : 201 to 250 µm
- Position of the excretory pore from the anterior end : 301 to 350 µm
- Position of deirides from the anterior end : 301 to 350 µm
- Length of the oesophagus : 301 to 350 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 : 1 to 10 µm ; 11 to 20 µm ; 21to 30 µm
- Axis of orientation of the synlophe : 1 axis
- Right axis : non applicable
- Left axis : non applicable
- 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 : In front of the caudal bursa
- Only a general axis : 61 to 70°
- Number of ventral ridges at midbody : 6 to 10
- Presence of a gradient of size of the cuticular ridges : Gradient on both dorsal and ventral faces
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 : At the base of the dorsal ray
- Length of the rigth spicule : 501 to 600 µm
- Length of the left spicule : 501 to 600 µm
- Shape of the spicules : Sharp ; Winged
- Number of tips of the spicules : 1
- Shape of the genital cone : Triangular
- Length of genital cone : 51 to 75 µm
- 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 : 11 to 20 µm
- Asymmetry of the caudal bursa : Right
- Height of the asymmetry : 101 to 150 µm
- Width of asymmetry : 101 to 150 µm
- 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 2-2-1
- 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
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Ratio length between ray 8 and dorsal ray : Dorsal ray
- Position of the rays 9 : After the division
- Form of gubernaculum : none marked
- Length of gubernaculum : 21 to 30 µm
- Symmetry of the caudal bursa : Asymmetric