Turbellarian taxonomic database

Koinocystididae Leguta Diagnosis


Copulatory organ rather small, weakly muscular, with saccular prostatic ducts and short wide cirrus with some big unequal hooks (three in the type species). Muscular copulatory bursa behind the atrium without resorptive vesicle; the seminal receptacle opens in its distal part. Testes anteriorly. No closed proboscis juncture sphincter. Weak pharynx mouth sphincter.

[From Karling TG (1980): 253]


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