Unguiphora sp. A
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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930110039585 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F587FC-A87E-FFA1-4354-A48F5ECD45E6 |
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Felipe |
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Unguiphora sp. A |
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Material examined
Queensland, Green Island , intertidal in medium to coarse coralline sand (September 1993), whole mount (lactophenol), in the same slide of the holotype of N. martensi sp. nov. (G211823) .
Description and remarks
An unpigmented, medium-sized, cnidocyst-bearing unguiphorid, without pigmented eye-spots. With an elongate, horizontally orientated, pharynx, about ve times longer than broad.
The only unguiphorids with an elongate pharynx are Nematoplana caribbea Curini-Galletti and Martens, 1992 , from Puerto Rico and N. caesarea Curini-Galletti and Martens, 1992 , from the eastern Mediterranean. Both are cnidocyst-bearing, and have been considered as sister species by Curini-Galletti and Martens (1992). The present species might thus be the third species in the complex, the rst known from the Indo-Paci c region.
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