with vesicula granulorum attached to the penis stylet through a more or less long canal; the vesicula granulorum elliptical to spherical; the prostatic secretion distributed in the total vesicula, mostly only locked out of a thin central canal; penis stylet very long and directed through winding construction into characteristic sections (except in Megamorion); with tube-shaped, often botryoidal accessory gland organ which bears, with penis stylet, a proximal fused gland stylet; vagina interna always present; into gland stylet gross cement glands open into it or around region; second cement gland secretion (mostly fine granules) arranged around outside the gential opening; bursal organ protrudes above the bursal canal mostly, but also over a wide part of genital atrium so that penis and gland stylets are partly surrounded by bursal organ; sperm duct always present; the proximal part of the mouth piece with a vesicle-formed widening; caudal sense organ lacking; rhabdite bundles, when present, dermal or adenal; marine or brackish
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