Turbellarian taxonomic database

Stylochus pelagicus Diagnosis


Body flat elliptical, slightly narrower posteriorly, with a sinuous margin.  Pellucid white in colour; mouth central, elliptical multilobate; a pair of dorsal tentacles; eyespots disposed in a pair of rings round the bases of the tentacles, and in two pairs of patches in front and behind the nervous ganglia.
    Length 7.5 mm; breadth 4.5 mm

[From Moseley HN (1877): 24]


Diagnosis for the valid (accepted) taxonomic name

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