Anokkostenostomum pegephilum ( Nuttycombe & Waters, 1938 ) Noreña & Damborenea & Brusa, 2005

Noreña, Carolina, Damborenea, Cristina & Brusa, Francisco, 2005, A taxonomic revision of South American species of the genus Stenostomum O. Schmidt (Platyhelminthes: Catenulida) based on morphological characters, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 144 (1), pp. 37-58 : 52

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00157.x

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5113636

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8C6887DA-3075-C477-FFBD-A206D4ACA8CD

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Carolina

scientific name

Anokkostenostomum pegephilum ( Nuttycombe & Waters, 1938 )
status

comb. nov.

Anokkostenostomum pegephilum ( Nuttycombe & Waters, 1938) View in CoL comb. nov.

( Fig. 5A View Figure 5 )

Stenostomum pegephilum Nuttycombe & Waters, 1938 View in CoL

Description: Solitary specimens: 0.26 mm long. Chains with two zooids (0.8 mm) up to 5–6 zooids (2 mm). Slight ventral flattening. Anterior end narrowing abruptly. Apical zone blunt. Long ciliated pits. Intestine-lacking region at the posterior end. Conspicuous ciliated epithelium. Irregularly arranged sensory cilia, more abundant in the anterior end. Epidermis with small rhabdites. Colour in life whitish.

The anterior brain lobes form independent masses (‘metameric’). No light-refracting bodies.

Oral pore transverse. Pharynx short, with radial musculature and small rounded glands (type a), which open onto its entire surface. A muscular sphincter separating the pharynx from the intestine. Irregularly arranged excretophores. Conspicuous sinuous protonephridium. Nephridiopore terminal.

Distribution: Mountain Lake, Virginia, USA ( Nuttycombe & Waters, 1938); Tieté River, São Paulo, Brazil ( Marcus, 1945b); Germany, Poland ( Lanfranchi & Papi, 1978); Fosso Contesora, Italy ( Kolasa, 1983); south of New York State, USA ( Kolasa et al., 1987; Kolasa, 1991).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Platyhelminthes

Class

Turbellaria

Order

Catenulida

Family

Stenostomidae

Genus

Anokkostenostomum

Loc

Anokkostenostomum pegephilum ( Nuttycombe & Waters, 1938 )

Noreña, Carolina, Damborenea, Cristina & Brusa, Francisco 2005
2005
Loc

Stenostomum pegephilum

Nuttycombe & Waters 1938
1938
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