Turbellarian taxonomic database
Bertiliellidae Bertiliella Diagnosis
Shape of the spicules simple, in the form o f a flat rod. With germo-vitellarium; germarium and parenchymal bursal organ posterior to the male copulatory organ. With unpaired medioventral testis in the posterior body half, paired seminal vesicles and tubular stylet. Without accessory stylet. Pharynx glands open distally, nuclei of the inner pharynx epithelium in the proximal region of the pharynx lumen.
[From Rieger RM, Sterrer W (1975): 232]
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