Turbellarian taxonomic database

Abstract / Notes

"Specimens of the widespread microturbellarian species Microstomum lineare (Muller, 1773) were collected in
the coastal zone of Chivyrkuy Bay in the northern basin of Lake Baikal at a depth of 11 m. All taxonomically
significant characters of the collected specimens are fully consistent with the diagnosis of this species.
This is the first reliable record of the species from Lake Baikal and from Eastern Siberia, expanding the data
on the range of M. lineare and increasing the list of Baikal microstomids to two species. And furthermore, the
finding of M. lineare in the lake is another example of overcoming the barrier between the Baikal and
Palaearctic faunas."

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