''Anandroplana'' is a genus of

flatworms Platyhelminthes (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") is a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates commonly called ...

belonging to the family Ilyplanidae.

Description

Members of ''Anandroplana'' were originally differentiated by

Libbie Hyman Libbie Henrietta Hyman (December 6, 1888 – August 3, 1969), was an American zoologist. She wrote numerous works on invertebrate zoology and the widely used ''A Laboratory Manual for Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy'' (1922, revised in 1942). Lif ...

; species are oval and elongate and shape, and have an encircling band of marginal eyes. The

pharynx The pharynx (: pharynges) is the part of the throat behind the human mouth, mouth and nasal cavity, and above the esophagus and trachea (the tubes going down to the stomach and the lungs respectively). It is found in vertebrates and invertebrates ...

is long and ruffled, with the muscular male apparatus close behind. There is no seminal vesicle, prostatic vesicle or penis papilla.Hyman, Libbie H. 1955. "Some Polyclad Flatworms from the West Indies and Florida." ''Proceedings of the United States National Museum''. 104 (3341):115–150, figures 81-89.

References

Rhabditophora genera Taxa named by Libbie Henrietta Hyman {{Flatworm-stub