Avagina, LEIPER, 1902
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AVAGINA LEIPER, 1902 View in CoL
Frontal glands weakly developed. Rhabdoids absent. Paired testes and paired or unpaired ovaries. Male system includes a muscular seminal vesicle, an eversible muscular penis and a ventral or subterminal gonopore. Antrum masculinum and female reproductive accessory organs absent. Type species: Avagina incola Leiper, 1902 .
Marine, free-living or parasitic; six species:
• Avagina incola Leiper, 1902 View in CoL
• Avagina glandulifera Westblad, 1953 View in CoL
• Avagina marci Dörjes & Karling, 1975 View in CoL
• Avagina polyvacuola Ehlers & Dörjes, 1979 View in CoL
Dorjes J, Karling TG. 1975. Species of Turbellaria Acoela in the Swedish Museum of Natural History, with remarks on their anatomy, taxonomy and distribution. Zoologica Scripta 4: 175 - 189.
Ehlers U, Dorjes J. 1979. Interstitielle Fauna von Galapagos XXIII Acoela (Turbellaria). Mikrofauna des Meeresbodens 72: 67 - 77.
Faubel A. 1976. Interstitielle Acoela (Turbellaria) aus dem Litoral der nordfriesischen Inseln Sylt und Amrum (Nordsee). Mitteilungen des Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museums und Instituts 73: 17 - 56.
Hickman VV. 1956. Parasitic Turbellaria from Tasmanian Echinoidea. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 90: 169 - 181.
Leiper RT. 1902. On an acoelous turbellarian inhabiting the common heart urchin. Nature 66: 641.
Westblad E. 1953. New Turbellaria parasites in Echinoderms. Arkiv for Zoologi 5: 268 - 291.
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Avagina
Atherton, Sarah & Jondelius, Ulf 2022 |
Avagina polyvacuola Ehlers & Dörjes, 1979
Ehlers & Dorjes 1979 |
Avagina sublitoralis
Faubel 1976 |
Avagina marci Dörjes & Karling, 1975
Dorjes & Karling 1975 |
Avagina vivipara
Hickman 1956 |
Avagina glandulifera
Westblad 1953 |
Avagina incola
Leiper 1902 |