Cheliplana curacaoensis, Gobert & Diez & Monnens & Reygel & Van Steenkiste & Leander & Artois, 2021

Gobert, Stefan, Diez, Yander L., Monnens, Marlies, Reygel, Patrick, Van Steenkiste, Niels W. L., Leander, Brian S. & Artois, Tom, 2021, A revision of the genus Cheliplana de Beauchamp, 1927 (Rhabdocoela: Schizorhynchia), with the description of six new species, Zootaxa 4970 (3), pp. 453-494 : 487

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4970.3.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FEABE248-E1EA-48F5-A1AF-0077FE40C257
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4912359
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E0878B-1855-FFB0-62BE-1847FB2FCB11
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Cheliplana curacaoensis
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Cheliplana curacaoensis n. sp.

Species of Cheliplana with proboscis with 15-μm-long hook supports, bearing 28-μm-long, smooth, curved hooks. Single testis and paired seminal vesicles. Elongate, 360-μm-long copulatory bulb with muscular internal seminal vesicle, folded ejaculatory duct and sinusoidal, 265-μm-long cirrus armed with spines that distally increase in length. Conspicuous, 40–50-μm-long, urn-shaped cap around the distal part of the cirrus.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Platyhelminthes
Class	Rhabditophora
Order	Rhabdocoela
Family	Karkinorhynchidae
Genus	Cheliplana

Specimens

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