Parabolia, Rodríguez & Hutchings & Williamson, 2021
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5024.1.1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2C7E87ED-F160-2632-69EC-2A20FD105F5C |
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Plazi |
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Parabolia |
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Family Gnesiocerotidae Marcus & Marcus, 1966 View in CoL
Genus Parabolia gen. nov.
Diagnosis: Gnesiocerotidae with oval body. With small tentacles, without marginal eyes but with cerebral and tentacular eyes inside the tentacles. Pharynx anterior to the middle part of the body. Gonopores separate. Male reproductive system enclosed in a muscular bulb consisting of a seminal vesicle, interpolated prostatic vesicle lined with ridged glandular epithelium and a parabolic dish-like penis stylet. Male atrium provided with a glandulomuscular fold. Female reproductive system dorsal to the male apparatus, with thickened external vagina and without Lang’s vesicle.
Etymology: The generic name refers to the parabolic dish-like shape of the penis stylet present in the male copulatory system.
Type species: Parabolia megae View in CoL gen. et sp. nov.
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