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Issue: Vol. 4227 No. 1: 1 Feb. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-01-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.1.3
Page range: 61–74
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On the genus Gallorhynchus Schockaert & Brunet, 1971 (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia, Polycystididae) with the description of four new species

Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Campus Diepenbeek, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Campus Diepenbeek, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Campus Diepenbeek, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Campus Diepenbeek, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Campus Diepenbeek, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
Platyhelminthes Flatworms microturbellaria biodiversity taxonomy Mediterranean Sea Algarve (S. Portugal) Rhabdocoela

Abstract

A comprehensive overview is given of the representatives of the taxon Gallorhynchus Schockaert & Brunet, 1971: the two known species G. simplex and G. mediterraneus of Schockaert & Brunet, 1971, Syltorhynchus schockaerti Noldt, 1989, which is transferred to the taxon Gallorhynchus, and four new species, G. elegans n.sp., G. faroensis n.sp., G. genista n.sp. and G. bidaformis n.sp.. G. schockaerti occurs in the North Sea; all other species were found in the western Mediterranean and in south Portugal.

 

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