Reports on the free-living Platyhelminthes from Australia: Typhloplanoida, with the description of three new taxa
Willems, W.; Artois, T.; Vermin, W.; Backeljau, T.; Schockaert, E. (2004). Reports on the free-living Platyhelminthes from Australia: Typhloplanoida, with the description of three new taxa. Zool. Sci. 21: 333-341
In: Zoological Science. Zoological Society of Japan: Tokyo. ISSN 0289-0003; e-ISSN 2212-3830, more
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Classification > Taxonomy
Promesostomidae Graff, 1882 [WoRMS]; Solenopharyngidae Graff, 1905 [WoRMS]; Trigonostomidae Graff, 1905 [WoRMS]; Turbellaria [WoRMS]
ISEW, Australia [Marine Regions]
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- Willems, W., more
- Artois, T., more
- Vermin, W.
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- Backeljau, T., more
- Schockaert, E., more
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| Abstract |
Five typhloplanoids from the Australian East Coast are reported, three of them new to science. Two taxa are members of Promesostomidae: Vauclusia conica n.g. n.sp., characterised by a cone-shaped stylet, the presence of a female bursa and a very long, partially-swollen female duct; Brinkmanniella australiensis n.sp. has a funnel-shaped stylet with a smooth distal tip. Pilamonila bimascula n.g. n.sp. is a representative of the Solenopharyngidae, characterised by a stylet within a cirrus. The known species found are Ceratopera axi and Ptychopera scutulifer. |
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