Turbellarian taxonomic database

Paulodora schockaerti Diagnosis


Species of Paulodora with the prostate stylet type I hook-shaped, ca 77 μm long (only 62 μm
in one specimen from Kenya). Outer stylet proximally forming a semitubular fold, extending distally as a
rounded plate that narrows towards the distal tip of the stylet. Bursal stalk long and narrow, covered by
pseudocuticula. Ovaries globular. Each oviduct with a seminal receptacle, which in turn is connected to a
smaller globular vesicle, also filled with sperm.

[From Artois TJ, Tessens BS (2008): 16]


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