Verutus
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Tylenchida
Tylenchina
Tylenchoidea
Heteroderidae
Heteroderinae
Verutus (Esser, 1981)
Synonyms:
None.
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Females: No cyst stage. Body saccate, sausage-shaped, or kidney-shaped. Cuticle thick, annulated over total body length; D-layer absent; multiple B-layer present; subcrystalline layer present [For information on ultrastructure of the cuticle and definition of its layers, see Shepherd, Clark & Dart (1972) and Baldwin (1983)]. Vulva submedian, large, with protruberant vulva lips. No phasmids. Remnant of tail very short to absent. Eggs not retained in body, but deposited individually, without gelatinous matrix. |
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Males: Body not twisted. Stylet under 30 µm long. Lateral field with four lines. Spicules strong, slightly curved. No phasmids. Tail short. Second-stage juveniles: Lateral field with four lines. Esophageal glands filling body cavity. Tail pointed, with long, hyaline, terminal part. Phasmids punctiform, small, devoid of lens-like
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Nurse cell system is a syncytium.
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Luc, Maggenti & Fortuner, Rev. Nematol. 11:159-176 (1988).]