Macrostomum thermale Fig 11.jpg

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Creative Commons Licence
Imaging technique: 
Illustration
Keywords: 
stylet base conical (Image keywords), stylet shaft decoration absent (Image keywords), section (Image keywords), stylet tip opening terminal (Image keywords), stylet tip thickening absent (Image keywords), stylet shaft curved (Image keywords), stylet base tubular (Image keywords)
Description: 

The penis stilette is depicted as an irregular tube with a distal terminal splitting of the thickened walls. Taxonomically, M. lutheri is placed in species dubiae of the genus Macrostomum because of the unscientific methods used and the lack of material upon this animal. It is this present author's opinion that the stilette shown in figure is a greatly flattened and distorted stilette of Macrostomum bulbostylum mihi described in the same paper (GIEYSZTOR 1931). p. 143

Taxonomic name: 
Macrostomum thermale (Macrostomorpha)
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