Turbellarian taxonomic database

Brunetorhynchus canariensis Diagnosis


Species of Brunetorhynchus, with a stylet approximately 90–100 ?m long, around 10 ?m broad at the proximal opening tapering to about 4–5 ?m distally. It has a thickened proximal rim, open at one side, from where two spiral ridges start, merge and make two turns counter-clock wise over the stylet. No prostate vesicle (type III). Long muscular female duct (type I).

[From Schockaert ER, Martens PM, Revis N, Janssen T, Willems W, Artois T (2014): 267]


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