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Amboherpia Handl & Salvini-Plawen 2002

Description

Amboherpia Handl & Salvini­Plawen, 2002

Mouth opening within common atrio­buccal opening. Monoserial radula with one pair of denticles per tooth. Tubular ventrolateral foregut glandular organs with bundles of glandular cells that come out at the end of each duct (type A according to Salvini­Plawen 1978 or type Acanthomenia according to Handl & Todt 2005) Midgut without constrictions. Secondary genital opening unpaired. Without copulatory stylets. Without respiratory folds. With a dorsoterminal sense organ.

Type species: Amboherpia heterotecta Handl & Salvini­Plawen, 2002

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Published as part of Gil-Mansilla, Esther, García-Álvarez, Óscar & Urgorri, Victoriano, 2008, New Acanthomeniidae (Solenogastres, Cavibelonia) from the abyssal Angola Basin *, pp. 175-186 in Zootaxa 1866 on page 176, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.274467

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References

  • Handl, C. & Salvini-Plawen, L. v. (2002) New records of Solenogastres-Cavibelonia (Mollusca) from Norwegian fjords and shelf waters including three new species. Sarsia, 87, 423 - 450.
  • Salvini-Plawen, L. v. (1978) Antarktische und subantarktische Solenogastres-Eine Monographie: 1898 - 1974. Zoologica (Stuttgart), 128, 1 - 315.
  • Handl, C. & Todt, C. (2005) Foregut Glands of Solenogastres (Mollusca): Anatomy and Revised Terminology. Journal of Morphology, 265, 28 - 42.