Turbellarian taxonomic database

Pseudaphanostoma variabilis Notes


Type

Westblad E 1946 (citation)- New genus and new species.  p 17 describes genus differs from Aphanostoma
	in having no bursa or clumps of sperm by bursa seminalis.  Also, lacks any vagina, etc. p 43
	illustration. from snady mud 15-20 meters.
	
Westblad E 1948 (citation)- p 32 illustration of sperm in.  p 39 illustration of penis.
Marcus E 1952 (citation)- mentions this as only species of genus to this time and compares it with
	his new species P. divae.  p 14, 104.

Dorjes J 1968 (citation)-  notes this species hard to place in Westblad's system.  pore may be
	terminal or ventral p 66.  lists p 88 as type.

Dorjes J, Karling TG 1975 (citation)- Swedish Museum of Natural History.  "evidently closely related
	to P. pelophilum.  Figure 31 male parts.

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