Jensen OS 1878 (citation)- definition in Latin p 28 and description p 28-30, illustration Plate II,
figs 2-5.
"body length 3 mm, breadth around 0.75 mm, flat margins, width 0.75 mm, flattened
with plain obtuse margins, rounded anterior narrowing to an acute posterior end. Color
above and below "suffusco" green, with minute brown spots; in middle of body red eggs
with distinct translucent spots. Rod-like bodies and colored masses which are numerous,
minute and greenish, give the green color to the body. Two parallel eyes at neck (located to
each side of otocyst) are red brown with diffuse very irregular ramifications. Mouth
transverse, cleft-like, located at end of antior 1/3 of body. Perfectly hermaphroditic (?).
Penis soft, tube-shaped, containing accessory secretory granules. Ovaries paired located
in middle of body. Eggs distinguished by red spots."
Jensen OS 1879 (citation)- on sperm of C. convoluta. (from Graff 1882).
Graff L v 1882 (citation)- illustration and note.
Graff L v 1891 (citation)- note on this.
Wagner F v 1891 (citation)- mentions p 654.
Pereyaslawzewa D 1892 (citation)- describes this species briefly p 225. Collected in winter
large ? species 3.5 mm. 2 red brown eyes, also p 235, 215 illustration of.
Gamble FW 1893 (citation)- Stout, yellow- from Plymouth.
Gamble FW 1893 (citation)- Occurence.
Bohmig L 1895 (citation)- lists p 44.
Fuhrmann O 1896 (citation)- lists and on ecology.
Fuhrmann O 1898 (citation)- lists and on ecology.
Fuhrmann O 1898 (citation)- lists and on ecology.
Graff L v 1902 (citation)- note on this in Ortava (Tenerife).
Graff L v 1904 (citation)- description and notes on.
Brinkmann A 1905 (citation)- In Danish, Bush translation. p 44- references.
Graff 1882, 1891, and 1904, Fuhrmann 1897, Gamble 1893.
illustration, reference, very long description- illustration fig 11-21.
fig 15- penis etc. seminal vesicle wall thin muscular granular gland secretion in.
fig 19- penis outer longitudinal muscle. glandular cuboidal ep. lining.
fig 20- frontal gland large. fig 21- outer wall, outer longitudinal muscle and inner
circular muscles?? fig 14- false seminal vesicle. male atrium- can't tell if ciliated.
fig 14 and 16- vagina- thick wall opens into atrium. p 50- bursa like Convoluta convoluta-
but nozzle longer and thinner. follicular testes extend over all anterior end.
Salensky W 1907 (citation)- mentions p 830.
Luther A 1912 (citation)- brief mention of.
Meixner J 1925 (citation)- comments on.
Southern R 1936 (citation)- reports in Ireland.
Westblad E 1946 (citation)- brief description of p 45- illustration - comments on Graffs ideas.
p 20. ecology of and general description pp 20-22. Copulation- section this 2 animals
and diagram. p 24- special sense organ (taste) at ant. end- as in "childea".
p 45 description:
length 1-2 mm for shape, pigment see Graff 1905, color from black
pigment and zoochlorellae (yellow to brown).
epidermis- nuclei more or less at times insunken- ventral side almost twice as high
as dorsal side, cells plygonial with many intracellularily opening subepithelial
glands. Westblad E 1948 (citation)- he says epidermis slime glands well developed on
ventral side.
Luther's sense organs laterally and ventrally on anterior end.
Frontal gland not well developed.
Outer muscle layer very strong, especially the circular muscles on ventral side- a
strong border muscle differentiated from the longitudinal muscle layer on the
ventral side. Westblad E 1948 (citation)- p 20 used on sideward gliding on substrate?
Brain well developed with 3 pair ? longitudinal nerves (1 pair dorsal, 2 lateral). The
largest in the ventral lateral pair lying inside the border muscle. Westblad E 1948 (citation)-
also 1 pair ventral in diagram p 24.
Bursa opens posterior into a long vagina which opens at the anterior part of the common
atrium in the wall of the vagina. One (-2?) stimulatory organs ("Reizorgave?").
Penis a long, curved tube inverted into the very muscular seminal vesicle; its inner wall
lined with many erythrophyl gland cells. Into the anterior part of the thick walled
seminal vesicle open two false seminial vesicles and a bundle of erythrophyl granular
glands. Many glands open into the posterior part of the genital atrium.
Distribution- from White Sea along North Atlantic, East Coast tro Tenerife and in Black
Sea but no records in Mediterranean.
Westblad E 1948 (citation)- p 11- black pigment in- also xooxanthellen. p 14- epidermis glands in,
p15 well developed. p 17 parenchyma in. p 19- ventral muscles, nine stronger developed than
dorsal. p 20- longitudinal muscles in. p 23-26- nervous system in general discussion.
p 24- diagram of nervous system. p 41- on penis in p 42-43. p 48- on female organs in p 50.
p 50- one gonopore in.
Marcus E 1948 (citation)- mentions p 188.
Marcus E 1950 (citation)- refers to this p 18, 103.
Marcus E 1952 (citation)- refers to thios in description of C. thauma p 16.
Westblad E 1954 (citation)- reports this from Norway on sand bottom at about 4-5 meters; occurence
as North Atlantic and the Black Sea.
Antonius A 1968 (citation)- moved to genus Conaperta.
Dorjes J 1968 (citation)- lists.
Apelt G 1969 (citation)- notes Westblad's 1946 work on copulation in.
Karling TG 1974 (citation)- on ecology of p 63.
Notes from synonyms
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