Turbellarian taxonomic database
Phaenocora gracilis Diagnosis
Animals about 1.5 mm long, but can be up to 2.5 mm. Visible eyes absent. Body pigmentation diffuse reddish. Zoochlorellae absent. Male copulatory organ of the duplex-type IIIA. Penis papilla with a thickening, which is probably an increased part of its sclerotised wall. Female genital system of the AGLOBULATA- type or the UNIPUNCTATA-type.
[From Houben AM, Van Steenkiste N, Artois TJ (2014): 338]
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