Turbellarian taxonomic database

Convolutrilobinae Convolutriloba Notes


Winsor L 1990 (citation)- Key to "free-living" marine turbellaria of north Queensland, Australia.  Also, new
species and taxonomic revisons.  Key to free-living acoels for Australia.  Species and taxa include:
     Waminoa litus
     Convolutriloba Henelberg and Akesson 1988
     Convolutriloba hastifera
     Convolutriloba japonica (Kato 1951)
     Convolutriloba cf. retrogemma
     Amphiscolops
     Amphiscolops australis
     Wulguru cuspidata 
     Heterochaerus sargassi (Hyman 1939)
     Heterochaerus australis Haswell 1905

Gschwentner et al. 1999 (citation) - 'The presence of sagittocysts in species of Convolutriloba is sufficient to
reassign the genus to the family Sagittiferidae.'


Notes for the valid (accepted) taxonomic name

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