Turbellarian taxonomic database

Childiidae Adeloposthia Notes


Steinbock O 1938 (citation)- says he has a specimen- also too poorly preserved , uncertain species
Westblad E 1948 (citation)- p 58 says too poorly known to include in key.
Dorjes J 1968 (citation)- list Paraproporus elegans An der Lan 1936. 

Notes for the valid (accepted) taxonomic name

Notes for Actinoposthiidae Paraproporus

An der Lan H 1936 (citation)- p 326-7 description of species, no definition, genus Adeloposthia.
Westblad E 1945 (citation)- p 46 definition, and describes new species, type P. rubescens. 
Westblad E 1948 (citation)- p 15 no rhabdites; p 55 in key to genera; p 62 pharynx compared.
	p 55 in key to genera of Acoels; p 15 not rhabdites in this genus?; p 62 compares pharynx in
	this genus and in Propora.
	
Marcus E 1950 (citation)- p 7, 10, 102, pharynx, cuticularized rods in atrium.  says this is species
	of Haploposthiidae and it has no pharynx (which is present in Proporidae and Diopisthoporidae)-
	description of new species P. xanthus does have a series of cuticularized rods of the
	peni along the walls of the atrium.
	
Dorjes J 1968 (citation)- expanded definition p 113 and list of species.  moves to his family Chiliidae.
		P. elegans An der Lan H (1936) 
		P. rubescens Westblad 1945
		P. xanthus Marcus 1950
		P. diovatus Dorjes 1968
	
Hooge MD 2001 (citation)- moves to family Actinoposthiidae.

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