Moniligaster Perrier, 1872

  • Male pores in x/xi.
  • Female pore at xi/xii.
  • One pair of spermathecal pore in vii/viii.
  • Gizzard 4 or 5 in front of intestine.
  • One pair of testis sacs on septum ix/x.
  • Ovaries in xi.
  • Spermathecae with a bifid muscular atrial chamber, each horn of which bears a lobulated glandular mass.
  • Fourteen species recorded in India viz.,

Sl No Species Type locality Nature
1 aiyeri Muthukkuzhi,Travancore, S India Endemic
2 bahli Kerala, India Endemic
3 blackmorei Kerala, India Endemic
4 cernosvitovi (=beddardi) Kodaikanal, Palni Hills, Tamilnadu, India Endemic
5 deshayesi Unknown,originally supposed to have been in Ceylon Endemic
6 deshayesi var. minor Chimungi, Travancore Endemic
7 gravelyi Trichur, Kerala, India Endemic
8 horsti Bungitappal, Nilgiri Hills, S India Endemic
9 ivaniosi Portblair, A&N Islands, India  
10 keralensis Kerala, India Endemic
11 michaelseni Kodaikanal, Palni Hills, Tamilnadu, India Endemic
12 perrieri Kodaikanal, Palni Hills, Tamilnadu, India Endemic
13 stephensoni Vanderavu & Kodaikanal, Palni Hills, Tamilnadu, India Endemic
14 troyi Vanderavu , Palni Hills, Tamilnadu, India Endemic