Turbellarian taxonomic database
Eukalyptorhynchia Bertiliellidae Diagnosis
Eukalyptorhynchia with a spicular skeleton embedded in the basement membrane. Spicules composed of crystalline calcium carbonate. Proboscis highly glandular, open to the parenchyma in a ring-like region behind the junction. Pharynx in the anterior body region with weakly developed internal musculature and without cuticularized knobs. Male copulatory organ of the conjuncta-simplex type, provided with a cuticularized tubular stylet. genital atrium with well-developed uterus.
[From Rieger RM, Sterrer W (1975): 224]
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