title: Suttonema delta n. g., n. sp. (Nematoda: Trichostrongylina: Heligmosomoidea) from Oxymycterus rufus (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) in Argentina.
abstract: A new nippostrongyline, Suttonema delta n. g., n. sp., is described from the intestine of Oxymycterus rufus (Rodentia: Sigmodontinae) from Argentina, in a host from which trichostrongylid nematodes were hitherto unknown. The new genus is very similar to Stilestrongylus Freitas, Lent & Almeida, 1937 and Malvinema Digiani, Sutton & Durette-Desset, 2003, both parasites of Neotropical sigmodontines, in the features of the caudal bursa (with a pattern of type 1-4, asymmetrical with hypertophied right lobe) and the presence of cephalic structures resembling cuticular cordons. The larval synlophe is also identical to that of Stilestrongylus freitasi Durette-Desset, 1968. The new genus is differentiated by an adult synlophe with few ridges (9-12 at mid-body) of two different types: small, rounded ridges without cuticular support on the dorsal side, and pointed ridges of unequal size on the ventral side and in lateral fields. It is also characterised by the presence of comaretes on the left ventral and ventral fields of the synlophe.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biologie parasitaire, Protistologie et Helminthologie, CNRS FR 63, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 61 rue de Buffon, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France.
authors.forename: María Celina
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Digiani
authors.forename: Marie-Claude
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Durette-Desset
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001118:Argentina; D005260:Female; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000469:parasitology; D008297:Male; D016205:Sigmodontinae / Q000469:parasitology*; D014251:Trichostrongyloidea / Q000033:anatomy & histology*