Priodoscolex Gates, 1940

  • Combined male and prostatic pores on xviii.
  • Oesophagus with single large gizzard in v.
  • Four pairs of discrete extramural calciferous glands in xiv-xvi bilobed.
  • Intestinal caecae and supra-intestinal glands absent.
  • Typhlosole simple, lamelliform.
  • Micromeronephridia astomate, exonephric paired tufts in iii, vi-xviii.
  • Several exonephric Micromeronephridia on the body wall in xiv and posteriad segments, stomate with preseptal funnels posterior to the Typhlosolar region.
  • Micromeronephridia absent.
  • Two species recorded in India viz.,

S. No Species Type locality Nature
1 montanus Nandy (Nandi Hills), Karnataka, India Endemic
2 maduraiensis Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India Endemic