Turbellarian taxonomic database

Hofsteniidae Marcusiola Diagnosis


Pharynx bell-shaped. Nervous system insunk, orthogonal. Ventral nerve cord inside the body-wall musculature [but dorsal nerves in base of epithelium (Du Bois Reymond Marcus, 1957 (citation))]

[From Dorjes J (1968): 105]


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