Prevalence and Morphological Characterization of Cheilospirura hamulosa, Diesing, 1861 (Nematoda: Acuarioidea), from Partridges in Iran

Table 1

Comparison of Cheilospirura hamulosa body parts from partridges of Iran with those of previous reports (mm).

	Cram, 1931 [1]	Yamaguti, 1954 [7]	Gomes et al., 2004 [8]	This study, 2014
Male	—
Body, length (mm)	9–13	13.6	9.54	11.18–13 (12.22)
Body, width (mm)	0.3–0.32	0.32	0.28	0.25–0.4 (0.3)
Cordons, length	7.2–8.8	—	—	9–9.6 (9.2)
Buccal cavity	—	0.24 × 0.03	—	0.21 × 0.019
Muscular oesophagus, length	—	0.91 × 0.098	0.67	0.37–0.38 (0.375)
Glandular oesophagus, length	—	2.55 × 0.154	2.21	1.6–2.4 ()
Tail, length	0.416–0.488	0.56	—	0.43
Long spicule (lsp)	1.6–1.8	2.4	1.48–1.74 (1.60)	1.4–1.6 (1.44)
The ratio between lsp length and body length	—	0.17	0.16	0.11
short spicule (ssp)	0.2–0.22	0.18	0.22–0.26 (0.22)	0.5–0.8 (0.62)
The ratio between ssp length and body length	—	0.01	0.02	0.04
Pairs of postcloacal; Papillae	6	3	5	5
Female	—
Body, length (mm)	15–22	24-25	9.7–23.09 (15.36)	16–20 (17.5)
Body, width (mm)	0.4–0.65	0.46–0.5	0.40	0.35–0.45 (0.39)
Cordons, length	10–15	—	—	12.5–13.8 (12.96)
Buccal cavity, length	—	0.33 × 0.047–0.057	—	0.23 × 0.028
Muscular oesophagus, length	—	1.26–1.3	0.82	0.29–0.75 (0.45)
Glandular oesophagus, length	—	4.2–4.5	2.83	2.1–2.7 (2.3)
Tail, length	0.42–0.59	0.28	0.33	0.44
Egg (μm)	40 × 27	39–45 × 24–26	36 × 22	51.25 × 29.5

Measurements from one male and female only.
Measurements from two males only.
Measurements from three females only.