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Issue: Vol. 3178 No. 1: 31 Jan. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-01-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3178.1.4
Page range: 45–56
Abstract views: 45
PDF downloaded: 32

The genus Leptoplana (Leptoplanidae, Polycladida) in the Mediterranean basin. Redescription of the species Leptoplana mediterranea (Bock, 1913) comb. nov.

Unité de Recherche “ Biologie de la Reproduction et du Développement animal Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis”, 2092 Campus Universitaire El Manar Tunis, Tunisia Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), c/ Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain
Department of Ultrastructure and Evolutionary Research, Institute of Zoology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Darwin Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Unité de Recherche “ Biologie de la Reproduction et du Développement animal Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis”, 2092 Campus Universitaire El Manar Tunis, Tunisia
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), c/ Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain
Platyhelminthes Leptoplana tremellaris planarian turbellarian embryonic development juvenile Tunisia

Abstract

A revision of the genus Leptoplana Ehrenberg, 1831 in the Mediterranean basin is undertaken. This revision deals withthe distribution and validity of the species of Leptoplana known for the area. The Mediterranean sub-species polyclad,Leptoplana tremellaris forma mediterranea Bock, 1913 is elevated to the specific level. Leptoplana mediterranea comb.nov. is redescribed from the Lake of Tunis, Tunisia. This flatworm is distinguished from Leptoplana tremellaris mainlyby having a prostatic vesicle provided with a long diverticulum attached ventrally to the seminal vesicle, a genital pit clos-er to the male pore than to the female one and a twelve-eyed hatching juvenile instead of the four-eyed juvenile of L. tremellaris. The direct development in L. mediterranea is described at 15 °C.

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