Turbellarian taxonomic database
Monticellina longituba Diagnosis
Umagillidae with a paired germarium, small lateral testicles in the anterior or middle part of the body, a very long, uniformly thick seminal vesicle with a fairly short, cuticular penis at its posterior end, a muscular, ciliated, very spacious male atrium and vagina, the epithelium of the body cilliated at the dorsal part of the body but nonciliated and very thin ventrally, a relatively big pharynx.--Parasites in sea-cucumbers, Holothuria impatiens and polii.
[From Westblad E (1953): 280]
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