Turbellarian taxonomic database

Record # 22795
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Journal
Pérez-García P, Noreña C, Cervera JL (2018)
Two new acotylean flatworms (Polycladida) of two genera unrecorded in the Eastern Atlantic
Marine Biodiversity, 9pp
[doi: 10.1007/s12526-018-0900-y
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Abstract / Notes

This paper describes two new species of two genera of polyclad flatworms found in the Iberian Peninsula,
Parviplana and Phaenoplana. Parviplana jeronimoi sp. nov. is a small-sized polyclad with yellowish-brown
background colour and pale yellow ventral body; gonopores well separated, with corrugated ventral body wall
between them; and prostatic vesicle with a penis papilla surrounded by a penis sheath, both housed in a wide
male atrium. Phaenoplana caetaria sp. nov. is characterised by a yellowish-brown dorsal body, without
tentacles, ejaculatory duct projects inside the prostatic vesicle, spherical prostatic vesicle, twisted penis
rod, well-developed male atrium and elongated small Lang’s vesicle. This is the first record of the genera
Parviplana and Phaenoplana in Europe, as well as in the Eastern Atlantic.

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