Latocestus viridis Bock, 1913

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 : 19

Latocestus viridis Bock, 1913

Latocestus viridis Bock, 1913: 64–6 , figs 1a–d, 2, pl. 3 fig. 1 (type locality: San José, Panama).

Distribution

San José, Panama.

Habitat

Benthic.

Remarks

Latocestus viridis has an elongated body with rounded anterior and posterior region; dull green coloration, with slight yellowish-green pigmentation in the upper region (often in stripes, in preserved organisms) (see Bock 1913: 64), ventral region with faint pink pigmentation; marginal eyes distributed on the periphery of the whole body, frontal eyes; male reproductive system with spermiducal vesicles and spermathecal ducts; ovoid prostatic vesicle, inert penis papilla, and female reproductive system with an S-shaped vagina, and narrow, sparsely muscular Lang’s vesicle.