PereliaEaston 1983

  • Setae closely paired, pigmentation lacking, sometimes with brownish colour on dorsum,
  • Prostomium epilobous, dorsal pore variable.
  • Male pore on segment 15 fairly visible, usually with glandular crescent intruding into the neighbouring segments.
  • Spermathecae open in setal line cd, nephropores irregularly alternate between b and above cd.
  • Two pairs of testes in 10, 11, and two or four pairs of seminal vesicles in 11, 12 or 9–12. Receptacula seminis two to five pairs (sometimes lacking?).
  • Calciferous glands with lateral diverticula in 10.
  • Excretory system holonephridial, nephridial bladders “S” shaped with cephalad bent ental part and ectal looping that might be fused forming an ectal vesicle (sigmoid-type). The cross section of longitudinal muscle layer is fasciculate with well-developed radial walls.
  • One species recorded in India viz.,
S. No Species Type locality Status
1 kaznakovi Silva Pisaméša and Nurana in Schemacha (= Shamakhi/ Şamaxı) District near Baku, Azerbaijan Exotic