Turbellarian taxonomic database

Record # 10287
Author
Title
Journal
Hyman LH (1934)
Report of Triclad Turbellaria from Indian Tibet.
Yale North India Expedition, Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 10: 5-12, plates 1-2

Abstract / Notes

Polycelis tibetica. Anatomy of genital organs descr. in detail. The sp. is common in Kashmir and Indian Tibet
above 2440 m. in streams and springs at temps. of 7[degree]-22[degree] C, and is found up to 4700 m., the
highest recorded locality for triclads. Euplanaria sp., asexual specimens recorded from Kashmir at 2080 m.
Both spp. seem closer to American than to European forms.

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