Turbellarian taxonomic database
Prolecithophora Ulianiniidae Diagnosis
Diagnosis for the family Ulianiniidae nomen novum (= Gastropharyngidae Meixner, 1938): Prolecithophora with pharynx plicatus of pharynx variabilis medioventrally and separate common genital pore posteriorly. With anterior ciliary furrow (furrows) and encapsulated brain. (Eyeless.) Gondads without a tunic. Copulatory organ with unpaired external seminal vesicle, prostatic vesicle and secretory ejaculatory duct. One single genus, Ulianinia Levinsen, 1879, with the characteristics of the family. Type-species U. mollissima Levinsen, 1879.
[From Karling TG (1963): 505]
Diagnosis for the valid (accepted) taxonomic name
Diagnosis for Prolecithophora Pseudostomidae
with mouth-gonopore in front end;
one ciliated groove;
esophagus simple and with weak walls;
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