Turbellarian taxonomic database

Record # 10249
Author
Title
Journal
Hickman VV (1955)
Two new Rhabdocoel Turbellarians parsitic in Tasmanian Holothurians.
Papers & Proceedings R Soc Tasmania 89:81-97

Abstract / Notes

A list of the valid spp. of rhabdocoel turbellarians recorded as endoparasites of holothurians is given. Two
new spp. are described. One of these, NOTOTHRIX inquilina, occurs in the intestine of Men-samaria thomsoni
(Hutton). The 2d sp. is found in the intestine of Stichopus mollis (Hutton) and belongs to the genus Ozametra
Marcus. It is named O. striata.

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