Avagina, LEIPER, 1902

Atherton, Sarah & Jondelius, Ulf, 2022, Phylogenetic assessment and systematic revision of the acoel family Isodiametridae, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194, pp. 736-760 : 753

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scientific name

Avagina
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AVAGINA LEIPER, 1902

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

Avagina glandulifera Westblad, 1953

Avagina marci Dörjes & Karling, 1975

Avagina polyvacuola Ehlers & Dörjes, 1979

Avagina sublitoralis Faubel, 1976

Avagina vivipara Hickman, 1956

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Xenacoelomorpha

Order

Acoela

Family

Isodiametridae

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Xenacoelomorpha

Order

Acoela

Family

Isodiametridae

Genus

Avagina