Mawsonema, Smales & Heinrich, 2010

Durette-Desset, Marie-Claude & Digiani, María Celina, 2023, Revision of the genera of Heligmonellidae (Nematoda, Heligmosomoidea), parasitic in Muridae from New Guinea, Parasite (Paris, France) 30 (63), pp. 1-34 : 7

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3.2 Genus MAWSONEMA Smales & Heinrich, 2010 View in CoL ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 )

Type and sole species: Mawsonema mokwanense Smales & Heinrich, 2010 .

Hosts: Muridae , Murinae , Hydromyini ( Rodentia ).

Host site: small intestine.

Distribution: New Guinea.

Original diagnosis: Nippostrongylinae . Synlophe well developed, with 15 continuous longitudinal pointed ridges: anterior body with axis of orientation of ridges sub frontal in anterior, lacking orientation in mid and hind body. Bursa asymmetric, left lobe largest. Pattern of bursal rays 2-3. Dorsal ray divided distal to level of branching of rays 8 from dorsal trunk. Parasites of hydromyine murids [ 45].

References

45. Smales LR, Heinrich B. 2010. Gastrointestinal nematodes of Paramelomys rubex (Rodentia: Muridae) from Papua Indonesia and Papua New Guinea with the descriptions of three new genera and four new species of Heligmonellidae and Herpetostrongylidae (Nematoda: Trichostrongylida). Zootaxa, 2672, 1 - 28.

Figures

Figure 2. Genus Mawsonema Smales & Heinrich, 2010. Body sections. A–F’ Mawsonema mokwanense Smales & Heinrich, 2010. A, A’ within proximal body, male. B, C at midbody. B male, C female. D, E within distal body. D male, E female. F, F’ within proximal body, female. A–E synlophe of type I. F, F’ synlophe of type II. Source: A–F redrawn from [45]. A’, F’ modified figures: reversed on their frontal axes with respect to the originals. F’ axis of orientation reinterpreted as subfrontal.