Family Hallangiidae Westblad, 1949

Description

With well developed frontal organ; anterior mouth and muscular pharynx. Ovary paired (or weakly forked), seminal receptacle and vagina present, female pore before male; testes paired, male organ comprises seminal vesicle and penis (sometimes reduced), male antrum not tubular.

Type genus

Hallangia Westblad, 1946

Genera

Aechmalotus Beklemischev, 1915
Hallangia Westblad, 1946

Remarks

The symbiotic species Aechmalotus is found in the holothurian Eupygrus (see Beklemischev, 1915).

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Class Turbellaria
Order Acoela
Family Hallangiidae

Sorry, there are no scientific synonyms and common names available for this taxon

Beklemischev, W.M., 1915. Sur les Turbellariés parasites de la côte Mourmannes. I Acoela. Trudy Leningradskogo obshchestva estestvoispytatele 43:103-172.

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