Lagenopolycystis Artois & Schockaert, 2000

Monnens, Marlies, Schockaert, Ernest R., Diez, Yander L., Revis, Nathalie, Janssen, Toon, Jouk, Philippe E. H., Tessens, Bart, Van Steenkiste, Niels W. L. & Artois, Tom J., 2025, On the genus Lagenopolycystis Artois and Schockaert, 2000 (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia, Polycystididae), Zootaxa 5659 (3), pp. 357-376 : 360-361

Genus Lagenopolycystis Artois & Schockaert, 2000

Emended diagnosis after Brunet (1965). Species of Typhlopolycystidinae with a proboscis of 1/5 to 1/4 of the body length and with eyes. Gonads unpaired. Copulatory organ with prostate vesicle type III and accessory vesicle type II, a gutter-like prostate stylet type III, and a tubiform accessory stylet type II, the latter attached to one of the walls of the prostate stylet. With a sclerotised tubiform appendage (‘seminal receptacle’) at the entrance of the oviduct.

Type species. Lagenopolycystis peresi ( Brunet, 1965) Artois & Schockaert, 2000 by original monotypy.