Turbellarian taxonomic database
Kuma flava Diagnosis
Hooge MD & Smith JPS 2004 (citation).
Mature specimens ~510 µm long and ~100 µm wide (Figs. 9A, 10A). Body cylindrical. Anterior and posterior
ends rounded; posterior more blunt. Body color gold by transmitted light. Epidermis completely ciliated.
Many large rhabdoid glands present; mostly concentrated at anterior end (Fig. 9A). Frontal organ well
developed; cell bodies of frontal glands positioned ~80 µm behind frontal pore (Fig. 9A).
Mouth opening on ventral surface, middle of body.
Ovary unpaired, ventral; extends ~150 µm posteriorly from level of mouth (Fig. 9A).
Testes paired, lateral to ovary, compact; separate from ovary. Testes extend from level of mouth posteriorly
to seminal vesicle.
Female gonopore, seminal bursa, and female accessories all absent.
Male gonopore terminal at posterior end of body; gonopore closer to ventral side. Proximal opening of long
(~60 µm) ciliated antrum surrounded by ring of large mucoid glands whose tips open into antrum (Figs. 9,
10B). Antrum body-wall musculature composed of circular and longitudinal muscles; antrum musculature
surrounded by darkly staining nuclei-perhaps insunk nuclei of antrum epithelium. Large unwalled seminal
vesicle positioned at proximal end of male antrum (Figs. 9B, 10B).
[From Hooge MD, Smith JPS (2004)]
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