Turbellarian taxonomic database

Record # 17864
Author
Title
Journal
Enright JB, Faubel A (2000)
Dasyhormus stygios n. sp. described from groundwater in northern Bavaria, Germany (Platyhelminthes, Catenulida, Catenulidae).
Senckenbergiana Biologica. 80(1-2):1-4

Abstract / Notes

Dasyhormus stygios sp. n. (Catenulidae, Platyhelminthes) is described from an Aschaffenburg municipal
groundwater measuring point in northern Bavaria, Germany. The species is characterized by a statocyst, an
undivided oval brain, a very long tail, and an epidermis with a pattern black pigmented (minute dots) when
exposed to light.



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