Turbellarian taxonomic database
Otocelididae Otocelis Diagnosis
Testis and ovary paired. Muscular penis tube enrolled in the vesicula seminalis. Vagina long, bow-shaped, in part strongly muscular. Bursa mouthpiece always present. ... Nervous sytem insunk. One or two genital pores.
[From Dorjes J (1968): 102]
Testes and ovaries paired. Male and female gonopores separate or combined. Vagina positioned behind male copulatory organ. Bursa with a single sclerotized bursal nozzle. Male copulatory organ with muscular, glandular, isodiametric, tubular penis invaginated into a muscular seminal vesicle. Ocelli often present.
[From Hooge MD, Rocha CEF (2006): 48]
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