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Marcus E 1952 (citation) pg.103-104: 'Pseudaphanostoma divae, n. sp. (Fig. 11-14), was found in coarse sand of the tide-zone, together with the Otoplanid Itaspis evelinae (Fig. 114-125) and the monostyliferous Nemertean Ototyphlonemertes brevis Correa 1948 on the beach of Ubatuba. The general shape, the unpaired ovary (o), the musculous seminal vesicle (s) with invaginated penis (p), the ciliated and also musculous antrum (a), the terminal or sub-terminal male pore (q), and the brain (c) agree with the type of the genus. Pseudaphanostoma variabile Westblad 1946. Differences are: the measurements (length up to 1.3 mm alive; breadth 0.2 mm), even, not jerking movements, depressed epicytial nuclei, very numberous cutaneous glands (g), cyanophil as the frontal (n) and caudal (h) onews, erythrophil oral glands (u), and unpaired testis (t) behind the ovary. The epithelial nuclei of the ejaculatory duct nearly form half-rings. The parts of them in the right side of the body were drawn as they appear in a thick section in Fig. 14, p. Like other inhabitants of the sand, P. divae has the ventral integument (cilia, epicytium, cutaneous muscles) stronger developed than the dorsal. Also the plenty of glands are frequent in animals of the endopsammon (Remane 1940). The body glands may provide the mucus that makes the worms glide evenly through the sand. The secretion of the frontal and caudal glands is stored in spacious reservatories and evidently sticks the worm to the sand grains shifting in the breakers.'
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