Dendrorhynchus sinensis Yin & Zeng, 1985

Sun, Shichun, 2006, On nemerteans with a branched proboscis from Zhanjiang, China, Journal of Natural History 40 (15 - 16), pp. 943-965 : 962

Type species Dendrorhynchus sinensis Yin & Zeng, 1985

Diagnosis. Heteronemertea with a single pair of horizontal lateral cephalic slits; with branched proboscis consisting of an undivided main axis from which primary branches emerge in a single plane, each primary branch dividing dichotomously several times; proboscis axis with three muscle layers (outer and inner longitudinal, middle circular) and two muscle crosses; rhynchocoel circular musculature not interwoven with body-wall longitudinal musculature, but in some places dorsally connected to body-wall circular musculature by a muscle cross; subepidermal gland zone and outer longitudinal musculature of body wall separated by distinct layer of connective tissue; dorsal fibrous core of cerebral ganglia posteriorly bifurcated; nervous system probably without neurochord cells; foregut with circular muscles and weakly developed longitudinal muscle plate present between dorsal foregut wall and rhynchocoel; intestine with distinct circular and longitudinal muscles; blood system with cephalic lacunar network and foregut vascular plexus, mid-dorsal vessel developed into long rhynchocoelic villus; cephalic glands not extensive; frontal organ with three separate pits; with neither eyes nor caudal cirrus.