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.

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