Equilophos, Durette-Desset & Digiani, 2015

Durette-Desset, Marie-Claude & Digiani, María Celina, 2015, Taxonomic revision of the Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda, Heligmonellidae) parasites of Muridae from the Australasian region. The genus Odilia Durette-Desset, 1973, Parasite (Paris, France) 22, pp. 1-12 : 9

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1051/parasite/2015032

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12751449

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scientific name

Equilophos
status

gen. nov.

VIII- Genus Equilophos View in CoL n. gen. ( Figs. 2H View Figure 2 and 3H View Figure 3 )

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Type species: Equilophos polyrhabdote (Mawson, 1961) n. comb.

Hosts: Muridae ( Rodentia ).

Host site: Small intestine.

Distribution: Australia.

Etymology: The genus was named in this way because the ridges are of similar size.

Definition: Heligmonellidae , Nippostrongylinae. Synlophe with 35–36 ridges in both sexes. Ridges continuous. Careen absent. Ridges small, of similar size, except mid-right ridges, minute. Axis of orientation almost subfrontal. Characteristic bursal pattern of type 1–4. Each spicule ending in one tip. SpL/BL: 10–11%.

Other species: Equilophos similis (Smales, 2009) n. comb.

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