Cestoplana rubrocinta (Grube, 1840) Lang 1884

Gammoudi, Mehrez, Garbouj, Myriam, Egger, Bernhard & Tekaya, Saïda, 2017, Updated inventory and distribution of free-living flatworms from Tunisian waters, Zootaxa 4263 (1), pp. 120-138 : 126

Cestoplana rubrocinta (Grube, 1840) Lang 1884

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Habitat. 3 specimens were found under stones.

Locality. Lagoon of Tunis (36° 48' 23.53" N; 10° 16' 04.63" E), Cap Zbib (37° 16' 01.08" N; 10° 04' 08.85" E).

Localities in Tunisia from bibliography. No previous records

Other localities in the world. Kenya ( Laidlaw 1903); Cape Verde ( Laidlaw 1906); Japan ( Kato 1937); Caribbean sea ( Quiroga et al. 2004); British coasts ( Howson & Picton 1997).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Polyclads from Tunisian waters. Dorsal view in all panels, anterior to the left. a Leptoplana mediterranea. b Leptoplana tremellaris. c Echinoplana celerrima. d Theama mediterranea; the depicted specimen was collected in Calvi, Corse. e Imogine mediterranea. f Discocelis tigrina. g Cestoplana rubrocinta. h Comoplana agilis. i Prosthiostomum siphunculus. j Prostheceraeus moseleyi. k Thysanozoon brocchii. l Pseudoceros maximus. m Yungia aurantiaca n hatching in Leptoplana tremellaris. o hatched four-eyed juvenile of Leptoplana tremellaris. Scale bars: 2 a – c, 2 e – m: 5 mm; 2 d, 2 n – o: 100 microns.