Turbellarian taxonomic database

Brunetorhynchus deconincki Diagnosis


Species of Brunetorhynchus with a slightly bent, tubular stylet 75–100 ?m long and 8–10 ?m broad, narrower in the distal quarter, with a thickened proximal rim, open at one side from where two spirally-running ridges depart and run counter clock-wise over the stylet. Prostate vesicle (type III) rudimentary, in approximately 1/3 of the proximal part of the male atrium.

[From Schockaert ER, Martens PM, Revis N, Janssen T, Willems W, Artois T (2014): 262]


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