Portmacquaria Blome 2005

Portmacquaria Blome, 2005 (emended after Blome 2002 and Blome 2005)

Cuticle complex with lateral differentiation formed by two longitudinal rows of enlarged dots joined by transverse bars runs from the head to the spinneret.Amphideal fovea transverse slits without marked thickening of the margins. Cephalic sensilla in two distant separate rings; whereas the inner labial sensillae of the first ring are papilliform; second ring with six outer labial setae and closely placed four comparatively longer cephalic setae. Solid dorsal tooth opposed by two small ventral teeth, all with flanges forming a cylindrical posterior part of buccal cavity. Oesophagus with well developed posterior bulb. Males with single outstretched anterior testis, right of the intestine. Female with opposed, reflexed ovaries, the anterior one right, the posterior one left of intestine. Spicular apparatus consisting of weakly cuticularised, arcuate spicules, a gubemaculum of irregular shape, and lateral pieces of indistinctly L-shaped form. Ventrally pre- and postcloacal cuticular thickenings in male. Tail conical with three indistinct caudal glands.

Type species: P. chimaira (Blome, 2002) Blome, 2005

P. chimaira (Blome, 2002) Blome, 2005