Microscolex phosphoreus (Duges, 1837)

• Male pores minute between apertures of a and b follicles at eq/xvii.
• Female pore at or slightly median to a, about halfway between xiii/xiv.
• Lumbricine, widely paired setae.
• Spermathecae one pair, diverticulate.
• Gizzard, intestinal caecae, supra-intestinal gland and typhlosole absent.
• Holandric.
• Size 10-35 mm.
• Single species recorded in India.
• Type locality is Montpellier, France.