Genus Leptoplana

Ehrenberg, 1831, sensu Lang, 1884

Leptoplanidae with a more or less elongate-oval body, often wider anteriorly than posteriorly. Without tentacles. Eyes arranged in paired cerebral and tentacular clusters. Pharynx much folded, centrally situated, about one-third as long as the body. Male and female genital pores close behind the pharynx, separated from each other by an adhesive depression. Seminal vesicle muscular; tubular prostatic organ interpolated, with dorsal or ventral appendage proximally; penis-papilla inconspicuous, situated in long narrow penis-pocket opening into slender male antrum. Vagina long, forming an anteriorly-directed loop; Lang's vesicle of variable development. Uterine canals confluent anteriorly to pharynx in fully mature worms.

Source: Prudhoe, 1982.

The following species of this genus occur in the region:

Leptoplana schizoporellae
Leptoplana tremellaris

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