Turbellarian taxonomic database

Phaenocora chloroxantha Diagnosis


Animals about 2–3 mm long, with a general body form resembling a smoothing iron. Visible eyes absent. Two types of zoochlorellae present, small round ones and long ones. Male copulatory organ probably of the duplex-type IIIA. The area where the vasa deferentia enter the seminal vesicle is ciliated. Female genital system of the TYPHLOPS-type. No connection with the gut. With a female genital canal, a small intestinal bursa and a duct that runs towards the gut and resembles the burso-intestinal duct of other species of Phaenocora.

[From Houben AM, Van Steenkiste N, Artois TJ (2014): 334]


Notes from synonyms


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