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“Genus Ocheyoherpia Salvini-Plawen, 1978

Ocheyoherpia Salvini-Plawen, 1978. Zoologica, 44 (128): 101.

TYPE SPECIES: Ocheyoherpia lituifera Salvini-Plawen, 1978.

Cuticle moderately thick, without epidermal papillae; sclerites acicular and hook-shaped in one layer. Mouth opening (in part well separated from atrium but) within common atrio-buccal opening. Midgut with constrictions. Secondary genital opening unpaired. With copulatory stylets with gland. Without respiratory organs. Without dorsoterminal sense organ.”

(García-Álvarez & Salvini-Plawen, 2007: 101)

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García-Álvarez & Salvini-Plawen, 2007: 101
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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - Antarctic Invertebrates