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Issue: Vol. 4418 No. 5: 10 May 2018
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-05-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.5.7
Page range: 499–500
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New replacement name for Anaperus Graff, 1911 (Acoelomorpha: Acoela: Convolutidae)

Laboratorio de Biodiversidad Marina (Ficología), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México, México, C.P. 04510 Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Acoelomorpha Acoela Convolutidae

Abstract

The acoel genus Anaperus was established by Graff in 1911 for Amphiscolops gardineri Graff, 1910, making Anaperus gardineri (Graff, 1910) its type species. Since then, six more valid species were described: A. tvaerminnensis (Luther, 1912); A. sulcatus Beklemischev, 1914; A. rubellus Westblad, 1945; A. biaculeatus Boguta, 1970; A. ornatus Beltagi, 2001; A. singularis Hooge & Smith, 2004. A seventh species, A. australis Westblad, 1952, is incertae sedis (Dörjes & Karling, 1975). The genus was placed to family Convolutidae Graff, 1905, until Dörjes (1968) erected the family Anaperidae on the basis of a distinctive male copulatory apparatus. Jondelius et al. (2011) returned it to Convolutidae on the basis of molecular–sequence data.

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