Table 1. Morphometric comparisons of Maxvachonia chabaudi Mawson, 1972 (Nematoda: Cosmocercidae) (measurements in millimetres).
Characteristics Present study Male Female Mawson (1972) Male Female
Length of body (BL) 2.07‒2.24 7.20‒14.6 2.30‒2.70 6.00‒15.5
Length of entire oesophagus (OL) 0.26‒0.34 0.44‒0.68 0.37‒0.52 0.57‒0.98
OL/BL (%) 12.6‒15.1 3.63‒8.39 13.7‒20.0 5.59‒10.8
Distance excretory pore from anterior end 0.21‒0.26 0.31‒0.48 0.20‒0.33 0.27‒0.63
Distance nerve ring from anterior end 0.11‒0.14 0.16‒0.30 0.15‒0.33 0.15‒0.32
Spicules length (SL) 0.09‒0.12 0.12‒0.13
SL/BL (%) 4.26‒5.43 4.80‒5.22
Gubernaculum length 0.11‒0.15 0.13‒0.16
Number and arrangement of caudal papillae (pairs) 6, 3, 6 6, 3, 6
Vulva from anterior end (VA) 0.41‒0.65 0.38‒0.80
VA/BL (%) 3.82‒7.32 4.03‒7.36
Length of tail (TL) 0.15‒0.20 1.50‒3.65 N/A 1.50‒4.20
TL/BL (%) 7.24–8.91 20.3‒30.3 N/A 19.6‒30.3
Hosts marine toad skinks
Country Australia Australia
persistent identifier: http://table.plazi.org/id/DF01B7900F2E6738FF5FFF26FEBFD607
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15135710
Published as part of Ni, Xue-Feng, Barton, Diane P., Chen, Hui-Xia, Li, Liang (2022). Native species Maxvachonia chabaudi Mawson, 1972 (Nematoda: Cosmocercoidea) found in the invasive marine toad Rhinella marina (Linnaeus) (Anura: Bufonidae) in Australia. Folia Parasitologica (028) 69: 1-7. DOI: 10.14411/fp.2022.028, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.14411/fp.2022.028 on page 6