Turbellarian taxonomic database

Phonorhynchoidinae Phonorhynchoides Diagnosis


Genus Phonorhynchoides Beklemischev, 1927. Polycystididae with paired gonads and a ventral, not terminal, common genital pore. Male copulatory organ with unpaired seminal vesicle, interposed prostate vesicle and a simple stylet. An accessory stylet with secretion reservoir is also present. Female atrial organs composed of a caudal bursa with cuticularised stalk and spermatic duct, and a cuticularised part where both tubes enter the bursa.

[From Schockaert ER (1971): 120]


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