Serrula, Schockaert & Curini-Galletti & Ridder & Volonterio & Artois, 2009

Schockaert, Ernest R., Curini-Galletti, Marco, Ridder, Wouter De, Volonterio, Odile & Artois, Tom, 2009, A new family of lithophoran Proseriata (Platyhelminthes), with the description of seven new species from the Indo-Pacific and South America, and the proposal of three new genera, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155 (4), pp. 759-773 : 766

SERRULA GEN. NOV.

Diagnosis: Meidiamidae with a single pair of testes and the pharynx in the anterior part of the body. Copulatory organ with a pair of short atrial needles sitting on a muscular base. Without stylet and accessory glandular organ. Seminal vesicles paired or single. With or without prepenial vagina. Genitointestinal connection absent?

Type species: Serrula byronensis sp. nov.

There are four species that are very similar, and these are described together.