Turbellarian taxonomic database

Record # 5505
Author
Title
Journal
Hyman LH (1943)
On a species of Macrostomum (Turbellaria: Rhabdocoela) found in tanks of exotic fishes.
Am Midl Naturalist 30:322-335

Abstract / Notes

The sp. of Macrostomum which often appears in the literature under the name of M. tuba (Graff) 1882 is
considered identical with M. tuba gigas Okugawa 1930; this is raised to specific rank. Specimens now believed
to be M. gigas, formerly attributed to M. tuba occur in tanks of exotic fishes in the Amer. Mus. of Nat.
Hist. and are used as a basis for a detailed descr. of M. gigas. The characters of the original M. tuba are
compared with those of M. gigas and the latter is compared with M. bulbostylum Ferguson 1939; this should
probably be regarded as an American variant of M. gigas

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