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Stylochus neapolitanus

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Stylochus neapolitanus (Delle Chiaje, 1841 –1844) Lang, 1884

Synonymous: Planaria neapolitana Delle Chiaje, 1941.

Material examined. Two mature specimens, collected in Los Urrutias (Mar Menor, Murcia). From rocky substrate and Caulerpa prolifera found between 0.2 to 2 metres deep; Fig. 1 (8).

Morphological remarks. Male copulatory system with simple seminal vesicle; the ejaculatory duct runs straight to the base of the prostatic vesicle, where it joins the prostatic duct and forms the penis papilla. Gonopores separated. Simple female system without Lang’s vesicle. The specimens agree with the description and figure of Lang’s Stylochus neapolitanus (1884), except for one difference: S. neapolitanus only has marginal eyes in the anterior edge, but one of these specimens have them around the entire body edge. Such phenotypic variation in the distribution of the eye spots have been reported by Meixner (1907).

Distribution. Western Mediterranean Sea: Delle Chiaje 1841 (Sicily); Lang 1884 (Naples); Novell 2003 (Cap de Creus). Laidlaw (1906) cited it for the Cape Verde Islands, but Palombi (1939) later assigned that specimen to Stylochus castaneus.

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Published as part of Marquina, Daniel, Osca, David, Rodríguez, Jorge, Fernández-Despiau, Estrella & Noreña, Carolina, 2014, State of knowledge of the Acotylea (Polycladida, Platyhelminthes) from the Mediterranean coasts of Spain: new records and new species, pp. 108-134 in Zootaxa 3780 (1) on page 128, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3780.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/250025

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Biodiversity

Family
Stylochidae
Genus
Stylochus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Polycladida
Phylum
Platyhelminthes
Species
neapolitanus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Delle Chiaje, S. (1841) Descrizione e notomia degli animali invertebrati della Sicilia citeriore osservati vivi negli anni 1822 - 1830. Tom. IV. Napoli, Atlas with 173 tables. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 10031
  • Lang, A. (1884) Die Polycladen (Seeplanarien) des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeresabschnitte. Eine Monographie. Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeresabschnitte, herausgegeben von der Zoologische Station in Neapel. W. Engelmann, Leipzig 1884, 688 pp.
  • Meixner, A. (1907) Polycladen von der Somalikueste nebst einer Revision der Stylochinen. Zeitschrift fur Wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 88, 385 - 498, t 25 - 29.
  • Novell, C. (2003) Tesis doctoral: Contribucio al coneixement dels turbellaris policladides del litoral catala. Available from: http: // hdl. handle. net / 10803 / 781 (accessed 25 February 2014)
  • Laidlaw, F. F. (1906) On the marine fauna of the Cape Verde Islands, from collections made in 1904 by Mr C. Crossland. -- The polyclad Turbellaria. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 76, 705 - 719.
  • Palombi, A. (1939) Turbellaria Policladea. Memoires du Musee royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique, 15 (2), 95 - 114.