Prosthiostomum Quatrefages, 1845

Ramos-Sánchez, Mariela, Carrasco-Rodríguez, Dahani S., García-Madrigal, María Del Socorro & Bastida-Zavala, J. Rolando, 2021, Marine flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) found in empty barnacle shells including a new species, from southern Mexican Pacific, Zootaxa 4965 (2), pp. 301-320 : 309-310

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4965.2.5

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4750199

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scientific name

Prosthiostomum Quatrefages, 1845
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Genus Prosthiostomum Quatrefages, 1845 View in CoL

Diagnosis (modified by Faubel 1984). Prosthiostomidae with marginal eyes along varying lengths of the anterior margin or encircling the entire margin; without marginal tentacles or pseudotentacles; a digestive system with frontally running main median intestine; male reproductive system with a pair of accessory vesicles, penis papilla armed with a pointed tubular stylet.

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Faubel, A. (1984) The Polycladida, Turbellaria proposal and establishment of a new system part. II. The Cotylea. Mitteilungen des hamburgischen zoologischen Museums und Instituts, 81,189 - 259.

Quatrefages, A. de. (1845) Etudes sur les types inferieurs de l'embranchement des anneles: memoire sur quelques planairees marines appartenant aux genres Tricelis (Ehr.), Polycelis (Ehr.), Prosthiostomum (Nob.), Proceros (Nob.), Eolidiceros (Nob.), et Stylochus (Ehr.). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, 3, 129 - 184.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Platyhelminthes

Class

Rhabditophora

Order

Polycladida

SubOrder

Cotylea

Family

Prosthiostomidae