title: Further description of Cruzia tentaculata (Rudolphi, 1819) Travassos, 1917 (Nematoda: Cruzidae) by light and scanning electron microscopy.
abstract: Species of Cruzia are parasites of the large intestine of marsupials, reptiles, amphibians, and mammalians. Cruzia tentaculata specimens were collected from the large intestine of Didelphis marsupialis (Mammalia: Didelphidae) from Colombia (new geographical record) and from Brazil and analyzed by light and scanning electron microscopy. The morphology of males and females by light microscopy corroborated most of the previous description and the ultrastructure by scanning electron microscopy evidence: the topography of the cuticle, deirids, amphids, phasmids in both sexes, a pair of papillae near the vulva opening, and the number and location of male caudal papillae, adding new features for species identification only observed by this technique.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Biologia de Helmintos Otto Wucherer, Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho Bloco G, Ilha do Fundão, CEP 21949-902, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: F A O
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Adnet
authors.forename: D H S
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Anjos
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Menezes-Oliveira
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Lanfredi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017162:Ascaridida / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D001938:Brazil; D003105:Colombia; D048293:Didelphis / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008853:Microscopy; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning