Thliptodon antarcticus

Meisenheimer, 1906

Body largely transparent, rounded to oval, visceral mass visible through body wall. Wings small, implanted laterally in middle of body. Head and body parts of nearly same size. Three footlobes usually fused. Median footlobe short and pointed. No median foot tubercle. Hook-sacs about 3 mm deep, each with 30 to 50 hooks. Penis with accessory sucker. Radula formula 3-1-1-1-3, with about 9 to 13 rows. Median plate very slender, band-like, with fine dentition, or an undulated anterior border. Intermediate plate differing distinctly from that in other species by slightly curved spine at tip; this spine with dentition resembling that of median plates of Cephalobrachia macrochaeta. Three lateral plates slender with straight margins, composed of articulated basal and top parts. Body length 4 mm.

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