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Pseudoceros maximus Lang 1884

Description

Pseudoceros maximus Lang, 1884

(Fig. 2 l)

Habitat. 3 specimens were collected from oyster beds and 2 specimens were found under rocks.

Locality. Bizerta lagoon (37° 13' 19.29" N; 9° 55' 49.94" E), lagoon of Ghar El-Melh (37° 10' 09.81" N; 10° 13' 04.27" E), Bouficha beach (36° 16' 48.36" N; 10° 29' 36.98" E) and Soliman beach (36° 43' 47.83" N; 10° 27' 52.95" E), La Goulette beach (36° 48' 24.40" N; 10° 14' 54.53" E).

Localities in Tunisia from bibliography. Gulf of Tunis: La Goulette (Gammoudi et al. 2011; Gammoudi & Tekaya 2012).

Other localities in the world. Gulf of Naples (Lang, 1884); Trieste (Steinböck 1933); coasts of Catalonia (Novell 2001); Croatia (Vàtova 1928), Turkey (Çinar 2014).

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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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.
  • Steinbock, O. (1933) Die Turbellarienfauna der Umgebung von Rovingno. Thalassia, 1, 1 - 33.
  • Novell, C. (2001) Contribucio al Coneixement dels Turbellaris Policladides del Litoral Catala. Tesi doctoral, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, 262 pp.
  • Vatova, A. (1928) Compendis della flora e fauna del Mare Adriatico presso Rovigno con la distribuzione geografica delle species bentoniche. Memorie del Regio Comitato Talassografico Italiano, 143, 154 - 174.
  • Cinar, M. E. (2014) Checklist of the phyla Platyhelminthes, Xenacoelomorpha, Nematoda, Acanthocephala, Myxozoa, Tardigrada, Cephalorhyncha, Nemertea, Echiura, Brachiopoda, Phoronida, Chaetognatha, and Chordata (Tunicata, Cephalochordata, and Hemichordata) from the coasts of Turkey. Turkish Journal of Zoology, 38, 698 - 722. https: // doi. org / 10.3906 / zoo- 1405 - 70