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<mods:titleid="D0156BEEEE884FEFD40ADC0DDCF3FF84">The polyclads (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from the Tropical Eastern Pacific: Commented checklist and description of a new species</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="A66F6D400F9CDE0DD9AC2690ED683237">Doctorado en Ciencias Biológico Agropecuarias, Área Ciencias Biológico Agropecuaria y Pesquera, Ciudad de la cultura “ Amado Nervo ”, Tepic, Nayarit, 63000, Mexico. & Laboratorio de Sistemática de Invertebrados Marinos (LABSIM), Universidad del Mar, campus Puerto Ángel, Ciudad Universitaria, Puerto Ángel, Oaxaca, 70902, Mexico.</mods:affiliation>
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could be considered a very primitive species because the most unique organizational feature within the polyclads: the proximal concentration of the extraepithelial prostatic glands. The family
is characterized by the absence of a true prostatic vesicle, but it presents a peculiar structure in the distal ejaculatory duct, which expands to form a bulbous organ. This organ can assume the function of a seminal vesicle by storing sperm (
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