Itaipusa Marcus, 1949

Diez, Yander L., Monnens, Marlies, Aguirre, Rosa Isabel, Yurduseven, Rana, Jouk, Philippe, Van Steenkiste, Niels W. L., Leander, Brian S., Schockaert, Ernest, Reygel, Patrick, Smeets, Karen & Artois, Tom, 2021, Taxonomy and phylogeny of Koinocystididae (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia) with the description of three new genera and twelve new species, Zootaxa 4948 (4), pp. 451-500 : 456

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4948.4.1
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scientific name	Itaipusa Marcus, 1949
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Itaipusa Marcus, 1949 View in CoL

Emended diagnosis of Itaipusa (after Marcus 1949 and Karling 1980). Representative of Koinocystididae with a proboscis with a juncture sphincter. Copulatory bulb of conjucta duplex-type. Male duct armed with spiny rows (the cirrus), except in I. biglandula Reygel et al. (2011) , where it is unarmed. Without accessory sclerotised structures such as stylets or hooks.

Type species. Itaipusa divae Marcus, 1949 View in CoL , by original designation.

Other species. Itaipusa aberrans sp. n., I. acerosa ( Brunet, 1972) Karling, 1978 View in CoL , I. biglandula View in CoL , I. karlingi Mack-Fira, 1968 View in CoL , I. novacaledonica sp. n., I. sbui Willems & Artois in Willems et al., 2017, I. similis ( Brunet, 1972) Karling, 1978 View in CoL , I. sophiae ( Graff, 1905) Karling, 1978 View in CoL , and I. spinibursa Karling, 1978 View in CoL .