Turbellarian taxonomic database
Otocelididae Archocelis Diagnosis
Colored green through pigment. No body vacuoles. Testis paired, ovary unpaired. Penis muscular, surrounded by penis sac. Vesicula seminalis present. Vagina bow-shaped, glandular, and widening proximally to a bursa seminalis which has no mouthpiece or ductus spermaticus. Rhabdoids reaching half the width of the body. Brain partially epithelial. Genital pore subterminal to terminal on the hind end.
[From Dorjes J (1968): 102]
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