Turbellarian taxonomic database

Anaperidae Anaperus Diagnosis


Doerjes 1968, p 108 (citation). Large animals, colored with rhabdoids, with subterminal gonopore. Antrum
masculinum spacious, glandular, and muscular. Stimulatory organ conical with proximal glandular tuft. Ovaries
paired. A bursa seminalis lacking, in general; in its place, one to many rostrad-directed mouthpieces
associated with sperm masses which sometimes flow together. Penis strongly glandular. Testes follicular.
Frontal glands weak.

[From Dorjes J (1968)]


Diagnosis for the valid (accepted) taxonomic name

Return to Anaperidae Anaperus