Echinoplana celerrima Haswell, 1907

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 : 122

Echinoplana celerrima Haswell, 1907

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Habitat. 25 specimens were found under stones.

Locality. Lagoon of Tunisia (36° 48' 24.40" N; 10° 14' 54.53" E), Bizerta lagoon (37° 13' 19.29" N; 9° 55' 49.94" E), lagoon of Ghar El-Melh (37° 10' 09.81" N; 10° 13' 04.27" E), Errimel beach (36° 52' 25.87" N; 10° 39' 57.06" E).

Localities in Tunisia from bibliography. E. celerrima was previously collected from lagoon of Tunisia ( Gammoudi et al. 2009; Gammoudi et al. 2011; Gammoudi & Tekaya 2012; Gammoudi et al. 2012a; Gammoudi et al. 2016b).

Other localities in the world. Echinoplana celerrima has a large world distribution since this species was recorded originally from Sydney, Australia ( Haswell, 1907), then in the Mediterranean sea ( Galleni 1978; Gammoudi et al. 2009); New Zealand ( Holleman 2007); Australia ( Johnston & Lee 2008).

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.