Turbellarian taxonomic database

Praesagittifera naikaiensis Notes


Hooge MD, Haye P, Tyler S, Litvaitis MK, Kornfield I  2002 (citation)- Phylogenetic relationships using 18S
rDNA, and morphological characters of sperm and body-wall musculature.

Carranza S, Baguna J, Riutort M 1997 (citation)- Using 18S rDNA sequences to look at the phylogeny of
Platyhelminthes.  Species of Turbellaria used include the following:  Crenobia alpina, Dendrocoelum lacteum,
Monocelis lineata, Archiloa rivularis, Geocentrophora sp., Mesocastrada sp., Nemertinoides elongatus,
Urastoma sp., Macrostomum tuba, Microstomum lineare, Discocelis tigrina, Planocera multitentaculata,
Stenostomum leucops, Convoluta pulchra, Convoluta naikaiensis.  New sequences reported for many of these
species.

Katayama T, Yamamoto M, Wada H, Satoh N 1993 (citation)- Phylogeny of Acoels "inferred from partial 18S rDNA
sequences".  Species used in analysis: Convoluta naikaiensis Yamasu 1982, Amphiscolops sp. Yamasu, Notoplana
koreana Kato 1937, Planocera multitentaculata Kato 1944, Stylochus orientalis Bock 1913, Pseudostylochus
obscurus (Stimpson 1857), Stylochoplana pusilla Bock 1924, Thysanozoon brocchii (Risso 1818), Dendrocoelopsis
lactea Ichikawa & Okugawa 1958 and Dugesia japonica Ichikawa & Kawakatsu, 1964.

Yamasu T 1991 (citation)-  "structure and function of ocelli and sagittocysts" in Acoels.  Electron microscopy
of structures.  Species used in study were: Praesagittifera naikaiensis, Praesagittifera gracilis,
Symsagittifera nitidae, Convoluta naviculae, Convoluta sp., Convoluta kikaiensis, Praesagittifera shikoki,
Amphiscolops langerhansi, Amphiscolops sp., Pseudaphanostoma sp.  

Notes from synonyms

Notes for Convoluta naikaiensis

Yamasu T 1982 (citation)- p 30-34 description and illustration - on life history, etc.
	[Bush where is seminal vesicle ?  bursa ok?] penis with cilia.
	            

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