Meidiama, LUTHERI MARCUS 1946

Schockaert, Ernest R., Curini-Galletti, Marco, Ridder, Wouter De, Volonterio, Odile & Artois, Tom, 2009, A new family of lithophoran Proseriata (Platyhelminthes), with the description of seven new species from the Indo-Pacific and South America, and the proposal of three new genera, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155 (4), pp. 759-773 : 760-761

MEIDIAMA LUTHERI MARCUS 1946

Diagnoses: Meidiama lutheri : species of Meidiama with a curved stylet of about 60-Mm long, accompanied by 10–12 needles of 30-Mm long, with a small terminal hook of about one-third to one-quarter of the length of the needles; close to 100 testes.

Occurrence: Meidiama lutheri : Beach of Guarujà , near Santos, Brazil; coarse shell gravel (type locality).

Material studied: Meidiama lutheri : two whole mounts, one indicated as lectotype ( SMNH 7348 ); two slides with dispersed sections of several individuals, and of very poor quality, containing very fragmentary information (paralectotypes: SMNH 7349–7350 ) .