Turbellarian taxonomic database
Bertiliellidae Florianella Diagnosis
Shape of the spicules complex, with a median asymmetrical ridge. With separated germarium and vitellarium. Germarium and parenchymal bursal organ in front of the male copulatory organ. With unpaired medioventral testis in the posterior body half, an unpaired, elongated seminal vesicle and tubular stylet. With additional accessory stylet in the male genital canal. Pharyngeal glands partly external, opening into two distinct circlets into the pharynx lumen. Nuclei of the inner pharynx epithelium in the middle of the pharynx lumen.
[From Rieger RM, Sterrer W (1975): 224-225]
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