Photo Gallery-Nine-mile Prairie |
Description (from Thorne & Malek, 1968):
Female: 0.7 mm; a = 29; b = 5.3; c = 8.2; V
=
61
Body
cylindroid except at extremities. Lateral fields 1/3 body width,
marked by 4 incisures. Lip region rounded, not striated. Amphid
apertures minutely oval, just below contour of lips. Spear
13u long with broad basal flanges. Median bulb of esophagus
fusiform, without sclerotized valve. Basal bulb elongate-pyriform,
slightly longer than body width. Excretory pore and hemizonid opposite
anterior end of of bulb. Posterior uterine branch length less than
body width. Tail
elongate-conoid
to clavate terminus.
Boleodoroides clavicaudatus [sic] differs
from the type in longer spear, 13:8u-9u, more anterior vulva
61:75% and shorter posterior uterine branch.
Habitat: Prairie sod, state line east
of Greeley, Colorado.
DNA Sequences Obtained
Specimen: | Collected: |
KonzaI CC-95 | Konza Prairie, First survey |