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Prostheceraeus moseleyi Lang 1884
Description
Prostheceraeus moseleyi Lang, 1884
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Habitat. 20 specimens were collected from mussel beds in Bizerta lagoon.
Locality. Bizerta lagoon (37° 13' 19.29" N; 9° 55' 49.94" E).
Localities in Tunisia from bibliography. Bizerta lagoon (Gammoudi et al. 2011; Gammoudi & Tekaya 2012).
Other localities in the world. Gulf of Naples (Lang 1884); Catalonian coasts (Novell 2001). This species with a previous distribution restricted to Mediterranean coasts was recently reported for the first time from the Atlantic ocean by Noreña et al. (2014).
Remark. In our study, P. moseleyi was found to feed on the ascidian Styela plicata (Lesueur, 1823). Noreña et al. (2014) noticed that atlantic specimens feed mainly on Clavelina lepadiformis (Müller, 1776).
Notes
Published as part of Gammoudi, Mehrez, Garbouj, Myriam, Egger, Bernhard & Tekaya, Saïda, 2017, Updated inventory and distribution of free-living flatworms from Tunisian waters, pp. 120-138 in Zootaxa 4263 (1) on page 127, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/572567
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Euryleptidae
- Genus
- Prostheceraeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Polycladida
- Phylum
- Platyhelminthes
- Scientific name authorship
- Lang
- Species
- moseleyi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Prostheceraeus moseleyi Lang, 1884 sec. Gammoudi, Garbouj, Egger & Tekaya, 2017
References
- Lang, A. (1884) Die Polycladen (Seeplanarien) des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeresabschnitte. Eine Monographie. Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeresabschnitte, herausgegeben von der Zoologische Station in Neapel. Engelmann, Leipzig, 688 pp.
- Novell, C. (2001) Contribucio al Coneixement dels Turbellaris Policladides del Litoral Catala. Tesi doctoral, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 262 pp.
- Muller, O. F. (1776) Zoologiae danicae prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. typis Hallageriis, Havniae, 282 pp.