Nugininema, Smales, L. R., 2016

Smales, L. R., 2016, The gastrointestinal helminths of Rattus niobe (Rodentia: Muridae) with descriptions of two new genera and three new species (Nematoda) from Papua New Guinea and Papua Indonesia, Zootaxa 4117 (2), pp. 183-197 : 189

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4117.2.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:77364DE9-61B2-4768-98BC-A77159BF7EB8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5628056

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F96514-FFFE-FFF2-4AA5-8179424C4EC4

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Plazi

scientific name

Nugininema
status

gen. nov.

Nugininema New Genus

Definition. Heligmonellidae , Nippostrongylinae . Synlophe well developed with 9–10 (anterior body) to 17 (midbody) continuous pointed longitudinal ridges, ventral ridge and adjacent right ventral ridge hypertrophied anteriorly; axis of orientation from right ventral to left dorsal side in anterior at about 50° to sagittal plane, axis subfrontal at mid body. Bursa dissymmetrical, right lobe larger, pattern of rays 1-3-1, dorsal ray divided distally to branching of rays 8. Parasites of murines, Rattini, from the island of New Guinea.

Type species Nugininema titokis

Etymology. The genus is named from the Pidgin language for New Guinea,

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