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<mods:titleid="95FDDD87A9AB0C0BFFDE2957B7CF22CD">The polyclads (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from the Tropical Eastern Pacific: Commented checklist and description of a new species</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="97F61F521BB571B5E97665BB4E8BF214">Doctorado en Ciencias Biológico Agropecuarias, Área Ciencias Biológico Agropecuaria y Pesquera, Ciudad de la cultura “ Amado Nervo ”, Tepic, Nayarit, 63000, Mexico. & Laboratorio de Sistemática de Invertebrados Marinos (LABSIM), Universidad del Mar, campus Puerto Ángel, Ciudad Universitaria, Puerto Ángel, Oaxaca, 70902, Mexico.</mods:affiliation>
<bibRefCitationid="EFCA13DF026CFF9DFCFF4FD9FBE67CD4"author="Schmarda L. K."box="[870,1060,1225,1252]"pageId="38"pageNumber="39"refId="ref32457"refString="Schmarda L. K. 1859. Neue wirbellose Thiere beobachtet und gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde 1853 bis 1857. Erster Band (erste Halfte): Turbellarien, Rotatorien und Anneliden. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 45359791 [accessed 2 Aug, 2023]."type="url"year="1859">Schmarda, 1859</bibRefCitation>
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made a partial description of the species. It is characterized by an oval-oblong body with a reddish-yellow dorsal region, with numerous spots, conspicuous nuchal pseudotentacles, cerebral eyes arranged in a circle, and tentacular eyes distributed over the pseudotentacles. The reproductive system is located in the central region of the body, featuring a long and conspicuous penis papilla.