Turbellarian taxonomic database
Temnosewellia possibilitas Notes
Sewell, Cannon & Blair 2006 (citation)- p. 272-274, "Haswell (1893) described and figured the cirrus of a worm he regarded as a variety of Temnosewellia fasciata. We believe it probable that the present species and Haswell’s ‘variety’ are one and the same. Haswell (1893) described the variety as occuring ‘together with’ Temnosewellia fasciata and ‘closely resembling the young of that species’. We did not find the two species together but we did find T. fasciata on Euastacis australasiensis collected just above Wentworth Falls, which is within five km of Leura from where the present species was collected. According to Morgan (1997) this region of the Blue Mountains is inhabited by only two Euastacus species, E. australasiensis and E. spinifer. Haswell (1893) identified as T. fasciata the specimens examined here that were collected from Astacopsis serratus [= Euastacus spp.] from Leura, Blue Mountains."
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