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Image of Proneomenia stillerythrocytica Salvini-Plawen 1978
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Proneomeniidae Mitchell 1892

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“Family PRONEOMENIIDAE Simroth, 1893

Proneomeniidae Simroth, 1893. H. G. Bronn's Klassen and Ordnungen des Tierreichs, 3 (1): 225; non Proneomenidae Mitchell, 1892 (cf. Salvini-Plawen, 2004).

Cuticle thick; hollow acicular sclerites arranged in several layers. Radula polystichous-polyserial. Ventral foregut glandular organs with epithelial gland cells (type C). One pair of seminal receptacles.”

(García-Álvarez & Salvini-Plawen, 2007: 133)

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García-Álvarez & Salvini-Plawen, 2007: 133
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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - Antarctic Invertebrates