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Palombi A (1928) Report on the Turbellaria. Zoological results of the Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Canal. 1924. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 22(5): 579-630, 1 plate [doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1928.tb00208.x goto] |
Abstract / Notes
Among the collections of the Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Canal are 16 species of Turbellaria, of which 6 are new, 14 species of Polycladida (10 Acotylea and 3 Cotylea), 1 species of Tricladida and 1 of Rhabdocoelida (Alloeocoela). The forms discussed are Polycladida Acotylea (Stylochidae) Stylochus suesensis; Idioplana australiensis; (Leptoplanidae) Stylochoplana pallida, S. angusta, Leptoplana tremellaris, Notoplana atomata, N. robusta, Notoplanides, with N. opisthopharynx; Cotylea (Pseudoceridae) Thysanozoon brocchii, Pseudoceros velutinus, P. caeruleo-punctatus; Opisthogeniidae n. fam., Opisthogenia, with O. tentaculata. Tricladida: Ditremageniidae n. fam., Ditremagenia with D. macropharynx an ectoparasite. Rhabdocoelida; Alloecoela, (Hofstenidae) Hofstenia minuta. Idioplana australiensis, Stylochoplana pallida, S. angusta, and especially Thysanozoon brocchii are of particular interest because of their geographical distribution, now being reported from the entire Mediterranean as well as from Japanese waters.
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