Definition: Beklemischev VN 1914 (citation) Beklemischev VN 1914 (citation)- p 1-4 description and illustration from Caspian Sea, 6-40 meters. 12 mm long x 2-3 mm wide and 2-3 mm thick. Color orange or brown; statocyst very small; epithelium ciliated; nuclei sunken; glands well developed, no frontal organ; muscles like those of Palmenia tvaerminnensis; outer circle and inner longitudinal in ?, well developed parenchyma muscles; endocytium not clearly demarcated. Reproductive system - 2 groups on dorsal side vasa diferentia lacking; ovarys in 2 rows all along dorsal side; bursa seminalis- 10 nozzles ? anterior to this. Stimulating organs- chitinous "Reizorganer" - 100's all opening more on surface as in Anaperus gardineri are not hollow but consist of a number of thin little tubes. Characters allying it to Anaperus- free lying nozzles of bursa seminalis stimulating organs of atrium; single genital opening; bursa seminalis more like Polychoerus but if it were drawn out and opened with parenchyma, etc. Beklemischev VN 1915 (citation)- notes widespread in Caspian Sea. Beklemischev VN 1929 (citation)- on glands in- a bundle of hollow rods. Westblad E 1942 (citation)- notes type of copulatory organ in p 8. Westblad E 1945 (citation)- includes this in his key. Westblad E 1948 (citation)- p 47, note on bursal with heavy wall- may really be a genital canal ? he suggests. Hyman LH 1951 (citation)- vol 2, p 127, notes this is largest of acoels- 12 mm long. Dorjes J 1968 (citation)- lists.
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