Turbellarian taxonomic database
Stylochus Imogine Diagnosis
Stylochidae with large, highly ruffled pharynx. Tentacular, cerebral, marginal, and often frontal eyespots present. Male copulatory apparatus with tripartite, anchor-shaped seminal vesicle enclosed in a strong muscular bulb, prostatic vesicle, and unarmed penis papilla. Lang’s vesicle absent. Prostatic vesicle with polyglandular lining. Body often with intensively undulated margins.
[From Bulnes VN, Faubel A, Park J-K (2005): 2099]
Diagnosis for the valid (accepted) taxonomic name
Diagnosis for Stylochidae Stylochus
Stylochidae with large, highly ruffled pharynx. Tentacular, cerebral, marginal, and often frontal eyespots present. Male copulatory apparatus with seminal vesicle not anchor-shaped, prostatic vesicle, and unarmed penis papilla. Lang’s vesicle absent. Prostatic vesicle with polyglandular lining. Body often with intensively undulated margins.
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