Polycydora Diez & Hernández & Reygel & Roosen & Artois 2018, gen. n.
Description
Polycydora Diez, Sanjuan, Reygel & Artois gen. n.
Diagnosis. Polycystididae with a proboscis showing four pairs of proboscis retractors and a ventral pair of integument retractors. Ovaries, testes and vitellaria paired. With a prostate stylet type II connected to a prostate vesicle type II containing eosinophilic secretion. Stalk of the male bursa with a thick, symmetrical muscle layer. Ovaries elongate, kidney shaped. Female bursa well-developed, with a long stalk, ending at the junction of the two oviducts.
Etymology. The name Polycydora is composed of Polycy-, taken from the genus Polycystis Kölliker, 1845, and of - dora, taken from the genus Paulodora Marcus, 1948, as the new genus shows some characters of both these genera.
Type species. Polycydora intermedia sp. n., by monotypy.
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Additional details
Biodiversity
- Family
- Polycystididae
- Genus
- Polycydora
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rhabdocoela
- Phylum
- Platyhelminthes
- Scientific name authorship
- Diez & Hernández & Reygel & Roosen & Artois
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Polycydora Diez, Reygel & Artois, 2018
References
- Kolliker, A. (1845) Lineola, Chloriane, Polycystis, neue Wurmgattungen und neue Arten von Nemertes. Verhandlungen der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 29, 86 - 99.