Turbellarian taxonomic database
Otocelididae Haplotestis Diagnosis
Unpigmented. Second half of body strongly vacuolized. Testis and ovary paired. Penis tube exceptionally long, surrounded by a compact penis sac. No vesicula seminalis; instead, a false seminal vesicle. Spacious antrum feminum with connecting canal-form vagina. Bursa seminalis small, without mouthpiece, yet with a ductus spermaticus. Rhabdoids irregular. Genital pore ventral. Brain insunk.
[From Dorjes J (1968): 103]
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