Cheliplana curacaoensis, Gobert & Diez & Monnens & Reygel & Van Steenkiste & Leander & Artois, 2021

Gobert, Stefan, Diez, Yander L., Monnens, Marlies, Reygel, Patrick, Van Steenkiste, Niels W. L., Leander, Brian S. & Artois, Tom, 2021, A revision of the genus Cheliplana de Beauchamp, 1927 (Rhabdocoela: Schizorhynchia), with the description of six new species, Zootaxa 4970 (3), pp. 453-494 : 487

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4970.3.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FEABE248-E1EA-48F5-A1AF-0077FE40C257

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4912359

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E0878B-1855-FFB0-62BE-1847FB2FCB11

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Plazi

scientific name

Cheliplana curacaoensis
status

sp. nov.

Cheliplana curacaoensis n. sp.

Species of Cheliplana with proboscis with 15-μm-long hook supports, bearing 28-μm-long, smooth, curved hooks. Single testis and paired seminal vesicles. Elongate, 360-μm-long copulatory bulb with muscular internal seminal vesicle, folded ejaculatory duct and sinusoidal, 265-μm-long cirrus armed with spines that distally increase in length. Conspicuous, 40–50-μm-long, urn-shaped cap around the distal part of the cirrus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Platyhelminthes

Class

Rhabditophora

Order

Rhabdocoela

InfraOrder

Schizorhynchia

Family

Karkinorhynchidae

Genus

Cheliplana

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