Imogine oculifera Girard, 1853

Bulnes, V. N., Faubel, A. & Park, J. - K., 2005, Two new marine species from South Korea with remarks on the family Stylochidae (Acotylea, Polycladida, Plathelminthes), Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 39 (23), pp. 2089-2107 : 2099

Imogine oculifera Girard, 1853

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Material examined

Voucher specimen. No. 67510, one specimen sagittally sectioned, locality: Piscaderabaai, Curacao, Caribbean Sea, leg. P. W. Hummelinck, deposited in SMNH .

Morphological notes

In the following, only morphological characters which deviate from the description of Hyman (1940) are added or re-described.

Reproductive system. Tripartite, anchor-shaped seminal vesicle. Free prostatic vesicle roundish oval, with inner finger-like extensions directed backwards. Extra-vesicular prostatic glands numerous lying at a short distance from the muscular wall in the parenchyma. Polyglandular type ( Figure 2C ). Male atrium ciliated.

Figures

Figure 2. Diagrammatic reconstruction of prostatic vesicles of Stylochidae. (A) Cryptostylochus coseirensis (Bock) after Meyer, 1921; (B) Imogine nebulosa (Girard); (C) Imogine oculifera Girard; (D) Stylochus alexandrinus Steinböck; (E) Stylochus frontalis Verrill; (F) Stylochus ellipticus (Verrill).