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Macrostomum phocurum Marcus, 1954

  site site # (info) collection date kind depth substrate salin comments reference
A Island of São Sebastião (Ilha de Sebastiao), Brazil 60
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Nov 1952 type locality     brackish to almost fresh under mangroves in humic, almost fresh, water smelling of hydrogen sulfide. Found with Stenostomum amphotum, diatoms, copepods, Hydrobiinae, algae (chiefly Euglenoidina) that are eaten by the worms. Marcus Er (1954): 434, 481

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