Turbellarian taxonomic database

Record # 4078
Author
Title
Journal
Hyman LH (1938)
North American Rhabdocoela and Alloeocoela. II. Rediscovery of Hydrolimax grisea Haldeman.
Am Mus Novit 1004:1-19

Abstract / Notes

This fresh-water alloeocoel, after having disappeared from notice for 45 yrs., has been rediscovered in New
Jersey and found to belong to the family Plagiostomidae, being the first member of this family known from
fresh waters of N. America. The genus Hydrolimax is valid and differs from other Plagiostomidae in the
follicular ovaries and enormous prostate vesicle, otherwise resembling Plagiostomum

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