Turbellarian taxonomic database

Record # 6807
Author
Title
Journal
Karling TG (1955)
Studien ueber Kalyptorhynchien (Turbellaria) V. Der Verwandtschaftskreis von Gyratrix Ehrenberg.
Acta Zool Fenn 88:1-39

Abstract / Notes

An examination of additional material of Gyratrix attemsi Graff indicates that it must be assigned to a
separate genus which is intermediate between Polycystididae and Gyratricidae; both Gyratrix and Gyratricella
are placed in Polycystididae. Keys, morphologic notes, distributional data, and/or descriptions are given for
the following: Gyratrix hermaphroditus Ehrenberg; G. proavus Meixner; GYRATRICELLA, type Gyratrix attemsi
Graff; DANORHYNCHUS, type duplostylis, England; D gosoeensis, SCANORHYNCHUS, types limophilus. and S.
forcipatus, Sweden; and NEOPOLYCYSTIS, type N. tridentata, Germany.

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