Turbellarian taxonomic database

Thalassoanaperus rubellus Notes

Geographic distribution:  Faroe Islands, low tide zone, North of Ejde.  Iceland low tide zone,
	algae on harbour wall at Isafjorour.


Steinbock O 1931 (citation)- described as Convoluta diploposthia p 6.  description and 
	illustration p 6, figures 5, 6.
Steinbock O 1938 (citation)- reports Convoluta diploposthia from Iceland.  
Westblad E 1945 (citation)- Definition.  Complete description and illustration.  p 42 and 53.
	Lists as synonym of Convoluta diploposthia.
	
Westblad E 1948 (citation)- Comments on under general description of Acoels.  p 11 rhabdites orange red,
	p 37- comments on sperm; p 47- 1-2 bursal nozzles.

Marcus E 1948 (citation)- notes this species transferred here from Convoluta p 117.
Marcus E 1952 (citation)- mentions p 9.	
Westblad E 1954 (citation)- p 4 reports it form Hjellestadbukta, Norway in mud at 60 meters- occurrence: 
	Scandinavian West Coast, the Faroes? and Iceland? (see Steinbock 1931 and 1938).
	
Dorjes J 1968 (citation)- lists p 108.
Dorjes J, Karling TG 1975 (citation)- Swedish Museum of Natural History, North Atlantic, figure of male
	copulatory organ, etc, on female parts.  Lectotype #2482, p 177.  Geographic distribution
	Iceland, West Coast of Sweden, Norway, soft bottom 15-100 meters.
Westblad E 1945 (citation). Pg 53. Size approximately as in A. tvaerminnensis. Lively. Either only a single, median nozzle or two nozzles at the same height, in the latter case always with separate sperm balls. Occurrence: Gullmarfarjord several times but only sporadically, especially on deeper clay soils (Blabergsholmen 30-40 m, Essvik ~30m, St. Borno 40 m), occasionally also on shallower soils mixed with sand (Langegap Rattholmen 1940). Trondheimfjord ( 30m 1936).

Notes from synonyms

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