Temnosewellia, Damborenea & Cannon, 2001

Damborenea, M. C. & Cannon, L. R. G., 2001, On neotropical Temnocephala (Platyhelminthes), Journal of Natural History 35, pp. 1103-1118 : 1115-1116

Temnosewellia gen. nov.

Diagnosis: Temnocephalidae with ®ve anterior tentacles, a posterior pedunculate adhesive disc, lacking conspicuous papillate ridges on tentacles or dorsal body, with dark (melanin?) pigment (if any) in body or eyes, with ®ve syncytial plates: a tentacular plate, a characteristic single, saddle-like, post tentacular plate, a body plate, a peduncular plate, and an adhesive disc plate; furthermore the excretory pores lie outside the single, post-tentacular plate on the body plate.

Type species: Temnosewellia minor (Haswell, 1888) .

Other species: All formerly species of Temnocephala , these now become: Temnosewellia athertonensis (Cannon, 1993) n. comb., T. butlerae (Cannon, 1993) n. comb., T. caeca (Haswell, 1900) n. comb., T. chaeropsis (Hett, 1925) n. comb., T. cita (Hickman, 1967) n. comb., T. dendyi ( Haswell, 1893) n. comb., T. engaei ( Haswell, 1893) n. comb., T. fasciata (Haswell, 1888) n. comb., T. geonoma (Williams, 1980) n. comb., T. improcera (Cannon, 1993) n. comb., T. minuta (Cannon, 1993) n. comb., T. neqae (Cannon, 1993) n. comb., T. queenslandensis (Cannon, 1993) n. comb., T. rouxi (Merton, 1913) n. comb. and T. semperi (Weber, 1889) n. comb.