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Anaperidae Philachoerus Diagnosis


Doerjes 1968, p 108-109 (citation). Large species, colored with rhabdoids, with male and female gonopores. Male
gonopore behind female pore and subterminal. Antrum masculinum spacious and glandular, into which many
conical stimulatory organs project, each always with a proximal glandular corona. Vesicula seminalis
functions concurrently as vesicula granulorum. Two lateral false seminal vesicles. Female accessory organs
consist of a vagina, bursa seminalis, and a forward-directed mouth piece. Vagina with two lateral stimulatory
organs and a muscular sphincter. Ovaries and testes paired. Frontal glands weak. Epidermal glands present
especially laterally.

[From Dorjes J (1968)]


Diagnosis for the valid (accepted) taxonomic name

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