Turbellarian taxonomic database

Austrorhynchus kerguelensis Diagnosis


Species of Austrorhynchus Karling, 1952 with two eyes. Prostate stylet type II ca 61 μm long,
slightly curved. With ca 19 μm long hook. Inner stylet restricted to the distal, tubiform part of the outer stylet.
Prostate stylet type III ca 108 μm long, ca 60 μm broad at its broadest, with pronounced style and foot, connected
to each other by a clasp and a broader transverse comb with a concave distal edge with coarse teeth.
Flagellum of prostate stylet type III rather short, with comb.

[From Artois TJ, Tessens BS (2008): 5]


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