Pseudobiceros wirtzi sp. nov. (Polycladida: Cotylea) from Senegal with revision of valid species of the genus
Author
Bahia, Juliana
Author
Schrödl, Michael
text
Zootaxa
2016
4097
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101
117
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.5
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1175-5326
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Pseudobiceros schmardae
Faubel, 1984
Taxonomic remarks.
The name was created to resolve confusion that resulted from the original description of
Prosthecereus
latissimus
(
Schmarda 1859
)
. Drawings of the
type
material show that two different animals were described under the same name; one clearly refers to
Prosthecereus
(
Stummer-Traunfels 1933, fig. 103a
) as it was illustrated by
Schmarda (1859, p. 32)
; and the other animal with two male gonopores (fig. 103b) shows characteristics typical for
Pseudobiceros
. The species was entirely put under
Pseudoceros
and the variation of number of gonopores was considered a plastic character (
Stummer-Traunfels 1933
,
Marcus 1950
). With the creation of the genus
Pseudobiceros
,
Faubel (1984)
created the new name to encompass the flatworm described by Schmarda and illustrated with two male gonopores. The species was not considered in Newman & Cannon’s (1994, 1997) revisions. However, we support it is a valid species (
Table 1
).