Pseudobiceros Faubel, 1984

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Genus Pseudobiceros Faubel, 1984

Pseudobiceros Faubel, 1984: 215 .

Pseudoceros Lang, 1884: 430 , 538, Taf. 5 fig. 5.— Prudhoe 1985: 131, fig. 116. Pseudobiceros Newman & Cannon, 1996: 239 , figs 1B, 2B, 3C, D, F, 4B, 5B, 6A.

Type-species. Pseudobiceros strigosus ( Marcus, 1950) , by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Pseudobiceros shows, as Pseudoceros , a flamboyantly aposematic and conspicuous colouration. Body consistency squashy and extremely delicate, elongate oval shape. Anterior end flattened and posterior end tapering, margin highly ruffled. Characteristic pseudotentacles well developed, mainly ear-like, but sometimes square. Cerebral eyespot rounded, elongated (with pointed ends). Dorsal pseudotentacular eyes in four star-like elongate clusters, ventral pseudotentacular eyes in four dense clusters. Sucker medial and located far from gonopores. Pharynx within anterior end; oval, with shallow simple pharyngeal folds. Intestine wider with numerous extremely narrow intestinal branches. Two symmetrical male pores emerge posteriorly to pharynx. Male apparatus duplicate and identical. Muscular seminal vesicle elongated. Rounded prostatic vesicle free, antero-dorsally oriented with extraepithelial glands. Ejaculatory and prostatic ducts join at base of penis papilla. Penis papilla armed with a conical stylet with specific length and width. Testes usually very abundant and ventrally located. V asa deferentia as spermiducal vesicles, but not spermiducal bulbs.

Female pore between male pores. Female complex without conspicuous difference with Pseudoceros . Ovaries situated dorsally and widely distributed; vagina short and posteriorly oriented; uteri paired, usually with numerous vesicles; cement pouch sack-like shaped; cement glands conspicuous.