Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Catalogue of the British Non-Parasitical Worms in the Collection of the British Museum
The body cavernous, linear-elongate, subcylindrical or compressed, very contractile, sometimes breaking spontaneously into pieces, the surface even and smooth, or rarely wrinkled: head more or less distinct, the mouth a simple terminal or subterminal pore, with a very long included proboscis intestine undivided, laid in the visceral cavity, with the vent situated well, forwards, or posterior and ter minal? There is a larger aperture below the head which leads to the common cavity.
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