Faerlea, WESTBLAD, 1945

Atherton, Sarah & Jondelius, Ulf, 2022, Phylogenetic assessment and systematic revision of the acoel family Isodiametridae, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194, pp. 736-760 : 741

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GENUS FAERLEA WESTBLAD, 1945

Unpigmented and often glassy in appearance. Parenchyma heavily vacuolated. Frontal glands well developed. Rhabdoids absent. Testes and ovaries paired. Male system includes a round seminal vesicle, a small muscular penis and a short antrum masculinum. Copulatory bursa, if present, is small, difficult to discern in live animals and includes a ventrofrontally directed cellular appendage. Gonopore(s) separate or male only. Type species: Faerlea fragilis Westblad, 1945 .

Marine, free-living or parasitic; seven species:

• Faerlea fragilis Westblad, 1945

• Faerlea antora Marcus, 1952

• Faerlea echinocardii Dörjes, 1972

• Faerlea glomerata Westblad, 1945

• Faerlea primitiva ( Dörjes, 1968) , comb. nov.

• Faerlea assembli sp. nov.

• Faerlea tyleri sp. nov.