Alexandromenia Heath, 1911

Salvini-Plawen, Luitfried von, 2008, Contributions to West European Cavibelonia (Mollusca, Solenogastres) with two new species, Zoosystema 30 (4), pp. 873-897 : 889

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Alexandromenia Heath, 1911
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Genus Alexandromenia Heath, 1911 View in CoL

TYPE SPECIES. — Alexandromenia agassizi Heath, 1911 .

DIAGNOSIS. — Spicules arranged tangentially and radially in several layers; with common atrio-buccal cavity; radula present; foregut glandular organs typically with common, cone-shaped pre-radular outlet into pouch; midgut with serial lateral constrictions. Secondary genital opening unpaired, no copulatory stylets. With dorsoterminal sense organ and respiratory organs.

HEATH H. 1911. - Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the tropical Pacific, XIV. The Solenogastres. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 45 (1): 1 - 179.