Turbellarian taxonomic database

Brunetorhynchus complicatus Diagnosis


Species of Brunetorhynchus, with a stylet approximately 62 ?m long and 10–12 ?m broad, with a thickened proximal rim, open at one side from where two spiral ridges run counter-clock wise over the stylet and with additional ridges in its distal half. A rudimentary prostate vesicle (type III), at about 2/3 of the stylet.

[From Schockaert ER, Martens PM, Revis N, Janssen T, Willems W, Artois T (2014): 265]


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