Turbellarian taxonomic database

Collecting site

Outer Hebrides (Western Isles, Western Island, Long Island), Scotland, United Kingdom

latitude: 57.759998     57°45'35.99"N
longitude: -7.02     7°1'12"W

[Precision of location: place-name in gazetteer]
[Site Named Here by name of island, bay, strait, lake, river, or stream, etc., named in source publication]



Collected here:

Polycelis tenuis Ijima, 18841966 or earlier.... scarce in the Western Islands and the north of Scotland and it may be excluded from harsher habitats as a result of competition for food with P. nigra...
Polycelis felina (Dalyell, 1814)1958 or earlier.... scarce in the Western Islands and the north of Scotland and it may be excluded from harsher habitats as a result of competition for food with P. nigra...
Crenobia alpina (Dana, 1766)1981 or earlierIn Britain ...commonly found under stones and among vegetation, characteristically in spring heads and small, cool, swift streams. In Scotland....permanent member of the fauna of lake.





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