Genus Nemertoderma Steinbock O 1930 (citation) Type: Nemertoderma bathycola Steinbock O 1930 (citation) History and synonyms Steinbock O 1930 (citation)- Describes new genus, N. bathycola as type, from 1 specimen taken in Greenland. Places it in separate family of Acoels, was not sure of mouth, etc. p80. First called this Microstomum diplolethicum in 1926 trip. Faubel A 1976 (citation). Family Nemertodermatidae. Describes n. sp. Nemertoderma rubra, p 27. Geographic distribution: Greenland, Diskobay, North Sea, Skagerrak, Mediterranean, Adriatic, Cape Cod- Buzzards Bay. Westblad E 1937 (citation)- found more specimens and shows it has a gut- also that Steinbock specimen was a young animal- he got both old and young. Steinbock O 1938 (citation)- rebuttal of Westblad's idea that this is not primitive. Westblad E 1948 (citation)- pp 62-65- comments on this genus in relation to other Acoelomorpha. Hyman LH 1951(citation) -vol 2, p 83- on epithelial position of nervous system. p 128- notes gut has a lumen and no female reproductive parts but egg. Hyman LH 1959 (citation)- p 734 on position of this. Ax 1961 (citation)- includes in discussion - diagram of N. bathycola, p 27. Ax P 1963 (citation)- says has epithelial nervous system- also more than 1 statolith. Steinbock O 1966 (citation)- mentions 2 statoliths, p 76 also p 83, 106, 108, 118-119 on brain. Sterrer W 1966 (citation)- brief announcement of species of Nemertoderma- gives history of genus and lists three species with illustrations but no other names. Karling TG 1967 (citation)- egg cells in p 4,5. on position of- Westblad's material- illustration cross section gut with cilia. Dorjes J 1968 (citation)- definition p 92. Beklemischev VN 1969 (citation)- vol II, p 80-2- primitive nervous system in. Karling TG 1970 (citation)- mentions in connection with Turbellarian archetype. Karling TG 1974 (citation)- in discussion of phylogeny- illustration- diagram of Nemertoderma p 4. Dorjes J, Karling TG 1975 (citation)- p 181 says taxonomy here is controversial. Crezee M 1975 (citation)- on dorsal ovaries in - diagram p 841. Faubel A 1976 (citation)- p 27. Tyler S 1976 (citation)- glands in. Faubel A, Dorjes J 1978 (citation)- on this in separate family etc. compare to Flagellophora- definition p 9. Smith JPS 1981 (citation)- mentions electron microscopy work (unpublished by him).
Smith JPS 1981 (citation)- Smith JPS 1982 (citation)- Fine-structural anatomy of the parenchyma in the acoela and nematodermatida (Turbellaria). Taxa include Convoluta, Diopisthoporus longitubis, Kuma, Nemertoderma, and Paratomella rubra.
Tyler S, Rieger RM 1977 (citation)- "Ultrastructural evidence for the systematic position of the Nemertodermatida (Turbellaria)."
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