Turbellarian taxonomic database
Leptoplanoidea Pseudostylochidae Diagnosis
Stylochoidea with ruffled pharynx, more or less oblong in shape, and arranged in varying positions in the body but never at hindmost body end. Male copulatory apparatus directed backwards. Free oblong prostatic vesicle and with tubular chambered glandular lining, without extra-vesicular prostatic glands. Gonopores usually separate.
[From Bulnes VN, Faubel A, Park J-K (2005): 2101]
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