Pseudoposthia, WESTBLAD, 1946

Atherton, Sarah & Jondelius, Ulf, 2022, Phylogenetic assessment and systematic revision of the acoel family Isodiametridae, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194, pp. 736-760 : 756

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https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab050

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Pseudoposthia
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PSEUDOPOSTHIA WESTBLAD, 1946 View in CoL

Without body pigmentation. With frontal organ and numerous small rhabdoid glands. Tests and ovaries paired. Male system includes a muscular penis associated with a separate glandular organ, a false seminal vesicle and a gonopore. False seminal vesicle not connected to the penis. True seminal vesicle absent. Glandular organ opens together with the penis at the gonopore. Male gonopore ventral, located at midbody. Female accessory organs absent. Type species: Pseudoposthia macrogonopora Westblad, 1946 .

Marine, free-living; one species:

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