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Mesostoma ehrenbergii
Authors/Creators
- 1. Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais (PPGBAC / FURG), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, RS, Brazil. * Correspondence: E-mail: rtvianna @ gmail. com (Vianna). & Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Laboratório de Biologia de Parasitos de Organismos Aquáticos, Av.
- 2. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Laboratório de Biologia de Parasitos de Organismos Aquáticos, Av.
- 3. División Zoología Invertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Boulevard 120 & 61, La Plata, Argentina. E-mail: fbrusa @ fcnym. unlp. edu. ar (Brusa) & Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina
- 4. Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais (PPGBAC / FURG), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, RS, Brazil. * Correspondence: E-mail: rtvianna @ gmail. com (Vianna). & Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Ecotoxicology and Risk Assessment Section, Gaustadalléen 21, 0349, Oslo, Norway.
Description
Mesostoma ehrenbergii (Focke, 1836) (Fig. 6A)
Synonyms: Planaria ehrenbergii Focke, 1836.
Mesostomum ehrenbergii Örsted, 1844.
Mesostoma wardii Woodworth, 1896.
Studied material: Eighteen individuals studied alive in squashed preparations, six of them fixed in alcohol (MZUSP PL 2260).
Localities: Site 1 (28/02/2019) and Site 2 (9/10/2018), associated with benthal and phytal microhabitats.
(*): Measurement based on images and scales from the references. NA: not available.
Description: Body of live individuals are 5.4 ± 2.3 mm (1.6–8.7 mm; n = 14) long and 1.5 ± 0.7 mm (0.4–2.9 mm; n = 13) wide, flattened and leaf-shaped, yellow-whitish. Round eggs of ± 0.24 mm in diameter (Fig. 6A).
Taxonomic remarks: The general appearance and anatomy of our specimens are in accordance with descriptions made for the Neotropical region (Beauchamp 1939; Marcus 1943 1946; Ponce de León 1985; Noreña-Janssen and Faubel 1992; Gamo and Leal-Zanchet 2004; Noreña et al. 2006b) and other biogeographical regions (Fuhrmann 1894; Stout 1953; Luther 1963; Young 2001). However, the body size of our specimens is smaller than those described for the Neotropical region by Beauchamp (1939) (9 mm), Marcus (1946) (15 mm), Noreña-Janssen (1995) (8–10 mm) and Gamo and Leal-Zanchet (2004) (3, 4 and 6 mm); but larger than those found in Peru by Noreña et al. (2006b) (1–1.5 mm).
Distribution: Widely distributed in freshwater ponds around the world (see Tyler et al. 2016 for a complete overview).
Notes
Published as part of Reyes, Jhoe, Binow, Daniela, Vianna, Rogério T., Brusa, Francisco & Martins, Samantha E., 2021, Free-living Microturbellarians (Platyhelminthes) from Wetlands in Southern Brazil, with the Description of Three New Species, pp. 1-33 in Zoological Studies 60 (22) on pages 14-16, DOI: 10.6620/ZS.2021.60-22, http://zenodo.org/record/12824095
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- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.12824107 (DOI)
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- Journal article: 10.6620/ZS.2021.60-22 (DOI)
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- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/870A7C2FFFF3986DA0567F66C355D570 (URL)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Focke
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Platyhelminthes
- Order
- Rhabdocoela
- Family
- Typhloplanidae
- Genus
- Mesostoma
- Species
- ehrenbergii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Mesostoma ehrenbergii (Focke, 1836) sec. Reyes, Binow, Vianna, Brusa & Martins, 2021
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