Turbellarian taxonomic database

Cicerinidae Zonorhynchinae Diagnosis


Cicerinidae without preformed adhesive papilla. Proboscis and integument retractors very long, extending in the caudal body end. Pharynx in the first body half. Copulatory organ with both a cirrus and a stylet.Without cuticular bursal mouth pieces.With a ductus communis that ends in the atrium.

[From Karling TG (1952): 4]


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