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Eukalyptorhynchia Elvertia Diagnosis
Proboscis with apex and nucleated bulb; no muscle pads, no secretory girdles or ampullae, no proboscis hard structures, and no sphincter at the juncture. Rosulate pharynx in the anterior body third; no hardened protuberances at the proximal rim. Tubiform testis in the posterior half of the body. Short deferent duct, no external seminal vesicle(s); internal seminal vesicle proximally and prostatic vesicle distally. Distal common canal surrounded by a thick muscle mantle. Curved stylet with proximal stalk. Long tubiform atrium. Single gonopore terminally in the posterior body. Paired germovitellaria in the middle body third. Germovitelloduct and uterus stalk enter the thin female genital duct. Uterus with 3 types of uterine glands. No bursa. Adhesive organs unknown. Paired pigrnented eyes.
[From Noldt U (1989): 319]
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