Turbellarian taxonomic database

Record # 23346
Author
Title
Journal
Berdnik SV, Tokinova RP (2020)
First record of the microturbellarian Macrostomum longituba Papi 1953 (Platyhelminthes, Rhabditophora) in Russian freshwater fauna [In Russian - see translation in {23451}]
Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, Vol 99(12): 1434-1436

Abstract / Notes

"Macrostomum longituba (Platyhelminthes, Rhabditophora, Macrostomorpha), formerly known as a representative of the Mediterranean brackish-water complex, is recorded for the first time in the Russian freshwater fauna. A single specimen of this species was discovered in 2016 in the Kama widening of the Kuibyshev Reservoir (Kama River) in the epibioses of a sunken boat. The report contains information on the morphology and habitat conditions of this species."

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