Leptoplana taenia ( Schmarda, 1859 )

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 : 51-52

Leptoplana taenia ( Schmarda, 1859)

Centrostomum taenium Schmarda, 1859: 24 , pl. 5, fig. 54 (type locality: Paita, Peru).

Leptoplana taenia – Lang 1884: 894 (new combination). — Faubel 1984b: 237 (identification keys).

Distribution

Paita Peru.

Habitat

Benthic.

Remarks

Schmarda (1859) made a partial description of the species, as well as a diagram in which he represented the external morphology of the organism. This illustration revealed a cylindrical pharynx, distinctive character of the superfamily Euryleptoidea within the suborder Cotylea . Subsequently, Lang (1884) reassigned the species, determining it as L. taenia . However, he did not establish or determine the characteristics based on the original description; reason for which Faubel (1983) established it as incertae sedis.