Longiprostatum ricketts Hyman, 1953

Ramos-Sánchez, Mariela, 2024, The polyclads (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from the Tropical Eastern Pacific: Commented checklist and description of a new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 962 (1), pp. 1-67 : 22

Longiprostatum ricketts Hyman, 1953

Longiprostatum ricketts Hyman, 1953a: 300–301 , figs 37–38 (type locality: Los Ángeles Bay, Baja California).

Longiprostatum ricketts – Brusca 2005: 69 (checklist).

Distribution

Bahía de los Ángeles, Baja California.

Habitat

Benthic.

Remarks

Longiprostatum rickettsi is a species characterized by tentacular, cerebral, frontal, and marginal groups of eyes distributed only in the anterior region of the body, a very long and narrow prostatic vesicle, with a sclerotized diaphragm separating its lumen from that of the penis papilla and with a sclerotic lining and seminal vesicle and Lang’s vesicle, both of which are present but reduced.