Turbellarian taxonomic database

Geoplanini Barreirana Diagnosis


Geoplaninae with small-sized body, 8–22 mm in length, body subcylindrical, slender with nearly parallel margins; dorsal colour pattern with transverse bands; eyes monolobulated, distributed on nearly all dorsum; pharynx cylindrical; prostatic vesicle intrabulbar, narrow; penis papilla protrusible, large conical, nearly horizontal; male atrium not folded; ascending portion of the ovovitelline ducts lateral to the gonopore canal or to the female atrium, joining each other above female atrium; genital canal dorso- anteriorly flexed, arising from the postero-dorsal region of
the female atrium; female atrium small, funnel-shaped.

[From Carbayo F, Alvarez-Presas M, Olivares CT, Marques FPL, Froehlich EM, Riutort M (2013): 14]


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