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Eukalyptorhynchia Cicerinidae Diagnosis


Proboscis with a girdle of secretion vacuoles. Epidermis non-vacuolized. Pharynx and copulatory organ as in Koinocystididae. Paired testes and germovitellaries. Separately opening bursa (external or internal vagina) with paired insemination canals, leading to the germaries. Uterus feebly developed, sometimes lacking.

[From Karling TG (1964): 182]


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