Description (from Thorne, 1929)
Micoletzky gave this species the specific name because
of the deep vestibule forming the pharynx. The slightly set off head
bears two circlets of large papillae. The posterior half of the esophagus
is enlarged by a rather sudden expansion. The cardia is pyriform
and as long as the width of the base of the esophagus. The symmetrical
ovaries are reflexed one-half their length the front being on the left,
the rear on the right, side of the body. The prerectum is about twice
as long as the rectum.
The male tail bears a pair of supplementary organs
just in front of the anus and beginning at a distance about one anal body-diameter
in front of this pair is a series of ventral supplementary organs varying
in number from eleven to twenty-one. Four pairs of pores are located
on the tail.
Several dozen specimens on the collection.
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