Turbellarian taxonomic database
Anaperidae Anaperus Diagnosis
Doerjes 1968, p 108 (citation). Large animals, colored with rhabdoids, with subterminal gonopore. Antrum
masculinum spacious, glandular, and muscular. Stimulatory organ conical with proximal glandular tuft. Ovaries
paired. A bursa seminalis lacking, in general; in its place, one to many rostrad-directed mouthpieces
associated with sperm masses which sometimes flow together. Penis strongly glandular. Testes follicular.
Frontal glands weak.
[From Dorjes J (1968)]
Diagnosis for the valid (accepted) taxonomic name
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