Phaenocora chloroxantha Marcus, 1946

Houben, Albrecht M., Steenkiste, Niels Van & Artois, Tom J., 2014, Revision of Phaenocora Ehrenberg, 1836 (Rhabditophora, Typhloplanidae, Phaenocorinae) with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 3889 (3), pp. 301-354 : 333-334

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3889.3.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5660118

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scientific name

Phaenocora chloroxantha Marcus, 1946
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Phaenocora chloroxantha Marcus, 1946 View in CoL

(Figs 13B1–B2, 16D)

Phaenocora chloroxantha Marcus 1946: 71 View in CoL , 74, 77–81, 82, 165, 166, Figs 85–87, 92–93; Karling 1956: 195, 199 Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 ; Marcus & Marcus 1959: 19; Noreña et al. 2004: 234.

Known distribution: Canindé (São Paulo, Brazil); in a small stagnant lake near Limão (São Paulo, Brazil) along the river Tietê ( Marcus 1946).

Material examined: None.

Diagnosis: Animals about 2–3 mm long, with a general body form resembling a smoothing iron. Visible eyes absent. Two types of zoochlorellae present, small round ones and long ones. Male copulatory organ probably of the duplex-type IIIA. The area where the vasa deferentia enter the seminal vesicle is ciliated. Female genital system of the TYPHLOPS - type. No connection with the gut. With a female genital canal, a small intestinal bursa and a duct that runs towards the gut and resembles the burso-intestinal duct of other species of Phaenocora .

Karling, T. G. (1956) Morphologisch-histologische Untersuchungen an den mannlichen Atrialorganen der Kalyptorhynchia (Turbellaria). Arkiv for Zoologi, 9, 187 - 279.

Marcus, E. (1946) Sobre Turbellaria Brasilieros. Boletins da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciencias e Letras, Zoologia, 11, 5 - 254. [Tab. I - XXXI]

Marcus, E. & Marcus, E. (1959) Turbellaria from Madeira and the Azores. Boletim do Musea Municipal de Funchal, 12, 15 - 42.

Norena, C., Damborenea, C. & Brusa, F. (2004) Platyhelminthes de vida libre - Microturbellaria - dulceacuicolas en Argentina. INSUGEO, Miscelanca, 12, 225 - 238.

Gallery Image

FIGURE 5. Phaenocora evelinae A, habitus of live animal with an invaginated male copulatory organ. B, invaginated male copulatory organ as seen on live animal. C, partly evaginated male copulatory organ as seen on live animal. D, evaginated male copulatory organ as seen on live animal. E, reconstruction on sagittal sections of male copulatory organ (caudal end at the left) F, reconstruction on sagittal sections of female genital system (caudal end at the left). (E – F: HU no. VI. 3.25).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Platyhelminthes

SubPhylum

Rhabditophora

Class

Rhabditophora

Order

Rhabdocoela

Family

Typhloplanidae

SubFamily

Phaenocorinae

Genus

Phaenocora