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Chabirenia cayennensis n. g., n. sp. (Nematoda: Rhabdiasidae) is described from the teiid lizard Ameiva ameiva. A total of 139 worms were recovered, all females, from the mucous glands of the buccal cavity. The worm has a free-living phase in a homogonic life-cycle. Infective larvae are enclosed in a sheath with chequered ornamentation and composed of two exuviae. The new genus is distinct from the five known genera of the family, Pneumonema Johnston, 1916, Acanthorhabdias Pereira, 1927, Entomelas Travassos, 1930, Rhabdias Stiles & Hassall, 1905 and Neoentomelas Hasagawa, 1989, in the following characters: helical habitus, longitudinal cuticular crests, very tiny buccal cavity without thick walls and three oesophageal onchia. Several characters of this new rhabdiasid suggest the Strongylida.
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This work was supported by the Arthur and Aenne Feindt Foundation (Hamburg, Germany) and the Progamme Pluriformation Guyane of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle. We thank Dr John Baker and Dr S. Babayan for revising the manscript, and Prof. C. Dupuis, member of the Editorial Committee of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, for his advice.
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Lhermitte-Vallarino, N., Bain, O., Deharo, E. et al. A New Rhabdiasid Nematode, Chabirenia cayennensis n. g., n. sp., Parasitic in the Glands of the Buccal Mucosa of a South American Saurian. Syst Parasitol 62, 151–160 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-005-5494-7
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