Turbellarian taxonomic database
Macrostomum quiritium Notes
From Schärer et al. 2011 (citation): Macrostomum quiritium Kolasa 1973 originally was described from a basin in the Poznan palm house, in Poznan, Poland. In that paper Kolasa attributes the name Macrostomum quiritium to Beklemischev 1951, who, however, never named such a species. Instead Beklemischev 1951 described a variety of Macrostomum japonicum Okugawa 1930 from an aquarium of a Russian malaria research facility, which he called “Macrostomum japonicum var. quiritium Beklemischev 1951.” However, neither Macrostomum japonicum (by the shape of the stylet) nor Macrostomum japonicum var. quiritium (by the arrangement of the seminal vesicles and the vesicula granulorum with respect to the stylet) matches the species described by Kolasa.
Notes from synonyms
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