Celeriella Gates, 1958


  • Combined male and prostatic pores paired, on xviii.
  • Female pores paired presetal on xiv.
  • Oesophagus with a single gizzard in vi.
  • Discrete calciferous gland absent but with calciferous lamellae in enlarged portions or pouches in xiii-xiv.
  • Intestinal caecae, supra-intestinal glands and typhlosole absent.
  • Spermathecal pores paired in 7/8 or 7/8/9.
  • Stomate paired enteronephric mega-meronephridia found in caudal segments.
  • Holandric testes, male funnel free in x and xi.
  • Prostates paired in xviii, extending posteriorly through several segments, vasa deferentia on each side joins the prostatic duct entally.
  • Penial setae absent.
  • Seven species recorded from India.

S. No Species Type locality Status
1. bursata Vandaravu Range, Kerala-Tamil Nadu border, India Endemic
2. ditheca Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India Endemic
3. duodecimalis Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India Endemic
4. kempi Marian Shola, Tamil Nadu, India Endemic
5. punctata Gundar Shola, Tamil Nadu, India Endemic
6. quadripapillata Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India Endemic
7. regularis Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India Endemic