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Stylochus Distylochus Diagnosis


No Diagnosis for this taxon.

Notes from synonyms

Diagnosis for Stylochidae Distylochus

Stylochidae with marginal, tentacular, and few scattered cerebral eyespots. Male and female tracts open in a common pore, or the genital pores are very close together near the hind margin. Male copulatory apparatus with papilla-like unarmed penis and seminal vesicle which is developed as a double-vesicle-system. The proximal vesicle is separated by a constriction, the muscle wall of which is distinctly fainter than that of the distal one. Prostatic vesicle with finger-like extensions of inner glandular lining; polyglandular type. Lang’s vesicle lacking.

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