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One specimen was dissected. Penis cylindrical and slim, with a short, but thick penial caecum, the proximal portion broader than the short and slimmer distal portion; retractor muscle attaches at the penis–epiphallus transition; epiphallus more than twice as long as the penis and much thicker, its transition to the vas deferens is gradual, barely discernable; there is a slim retractor muscle attached to the proximal portion of the epiphallus; proximal portion of the vas deferens thicker than the distal part. Vagina and free pedunculus extremely short; bursa copulatrix almost twice as long as the combined length of the penis–epiphallus complex.
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Barna Páll-Gergely, Tamás Deli, Atanas Irikov, Josef Harl
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Páll-Gergely B, Deli T, Irikov A, Harl J (2013) Subgeneric division of the genus Orcula Held 1837 with remarks on Romanian orculid data (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Orculidae) ZooKeys 301: 25–49
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Barna Páll-Gergely
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Tamás Deli
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Atanas Irikov
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Josef Harl
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