Hyper-Cryptic Marine Meiofauna: Species Complexes in Nemertodermatida
Figure 6
Diversity within the genus Nemertinoides.
a–c: Nemertinoides glandulosum n.sp. a) Posterior with mco. b) Overview (anterior region missing) of worm with mouth (m). c) Anterior with statocyst with double statoliths and frontal organ. d, e: Nemertinoides elongatus. d) Detail of the male copulatory organ with false seminal vesicle. e) Overview of whole animal with position of the mco. f, g: Nemertinoides wolfgangi n.sp. f) Anterior and posterior of fully mature animal with oocytes and fsv in the posterior. Only one statoliths in statocyst visible as photo is taken slightly laterally. g) Overview over the same animal with oocutes still visible but no fsv. Photographs were taken of live specimens, b–g are photographs of the respective holotypes. The scale bars indicate 100 µm for each photograph.