Turbellarian taxonomic database

Typhloplanidae Ascophorinae Diagnosis


With pharynx typical, in middle body third;
male copulatory organ without cirrus;
without genito-intestinal connection;
with a gland organ opening near the genital pore that serves to put stalks on egg capsules;
testes dorsal or in front of lobed vitellaria;
freshwater;
two excretory pores separate and caudal to pharynx;
adenal rhabdites only in rhammite tracks, dermal ones lacking;
outer pharynx epithelium without cilia;

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