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Dalytyphloplanida Hypoblepharinidae Diagnosis

ventrally ciliated;
dorsal body wall with a secreted cuticle-like layer;
with strongly developed secretory glands;
with paired germo-vitellaria and whose germarium part is in the hind body;
with paired compact testes;
with the gonopore at the hind end of the body;
with vagina;
bursa with spermatic duct and a receptaculum seminalis;
common antrum with paired diverticula and with sclerotic supporting apparatus for the copulatory tube of the penis;
with a long curved male stylet;
eyes and uterus lacking;

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