Turbellarian taxonomic database
Stylochus Imogine Diagnosis
Stylochidae with large, highly ruffled pharynx. Tentacular, cerebral, marginal, and often frontal eyespots present. Male copulatory apparatus with tripartite, anchor-shaped seminal vesicle enclosed in a strong muscular bulb, prostatic vesicle, and unarmed penis papilla. Lang’s vesicle absent. Prostatic vesicle with polyglandular lining. Body often with intensively undulated margins.
[From Bulnes VN, Faubel A, Park J-K (2005): 2099]
Diagnosis for the valid (accepted) taxonomic name
Diagnosis for Stylochidae I Stylochus
Stylochidae with large, highly ruffled pharynx. Tentacular, cerebral, marginal, and often frontal eyespots present. Male copulatory apparatus with seminal vesicle not anchor-shaped, prostatic vesicle, and unarmed penis papilla. Lang’s vesicle absent. Prostatic vesicle with polyglandular lining. Body often with intensively undulated margins.
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