Genus Discocelides

Bergendal, 1893

Plehniidae without tentacles. Eyes very small, disposed in paired cerebral and tentacular clusters; frontal eyes present; marginal eyes in several rows anteriorly, decreasing gradually to individual eyes posteriorly. Moderately-folded pharynx centrally placed, less than one-third of the body length; anterior and posterior intestinal branches anastomosing. Male pore anteriorly to, and well separated from, female pore. Male copulatory complex with a pair of spermiducal vesicles; prostatic organ muscular and independent; penis-papilla short and broad. Lang's vesicle elongate; ductus vaginalis connects female antrum with vagina interna. Uterine canals lateral to vasa deferentia, not confluent anteriorly.

Source: Prudhoe, 1982.

The following species of this genus occurs in the region:

Discocelides langi

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