Pintneria Poche, 1907

Dronen, Norman O., Calhoun, Dana M. & Simcik, Steven R., 2012, Mesocoelium Odhner, 1901 (Digenea: Mesocoelidae) revisited; a revision of the family and re-evaluation of species composition in the genus 3387, Zootaxa 3387 (1), pp. 1-96 : 7

Genus Pintneria Poche, 1907

Diagnosis. With characteristics of the family. Body spinose, elongate, rounded anteriorly and posteriorly. Oral sucker subterminal; mouth subterminal; prepharynx short; pharynx smaller than oral sucker, muscular; esophagus present; ceca moderately long, extending near to midlevel of postovarian space. Ventral sucker well above midlevel of body, typically in anterior ⅓ of body, smaller than oral sucker. Testes spherical to subspherical, tandem, intercecal at level of ventral sucker. Cirrus sac well developed, enclosing bipartite seminal vesicle, located between cecal bifurcation and ventral sucker. Genital pore prebifurcal, median. Ovary oval, smooth, postesticular, submedian. Seminal receptacle immediately posteromedial to ovary. Laurer’s canal present. Uterus with highly folded descending and ascending limbs, filling most of postovarian space, ascending limb passing lateral to testes opposite of ovary; uterine loops approaching body wall. Vitellaria follicular; vitelline fields ventral and lateral to ceca, reaching to level of oral sucker, terminating posteriorly near midlevel of postovarian space. Excretory vesicle apparently I-shaped; excretory pore terminal. Adults in intestines of the flying dragon, Draco volans Linnaeus , from Java, Indonesia.

Type species. Pintneria mesocoelium Poche, 1907 - only species currently in genus.

(syns. Haploderma mesocoelium [ Cohn, 1903] [genus preoccupied]; Mesocoelium mesocoelium Cheng, 1960 ).