Molecular phylogenetics facilitates the first historical biogeographic analysis of the hammerhead worms (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Bipaliinae), with the description of twelve new species and two new genera
Author
Solà, Eduard
0000-0003-1848-4085
eduardsola@ub.edu
Author
Sluys, Ronald
0000-0002-9776-3471
luys@naturalis.nl
Author
Riutort, Marta
0000-0003-1848-4085
eduardsola@ub.edu
Author
Kawakatsu, Masaharu
0000-0003-1848-4085
eduardsola@ub.edu
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-08-18
5335
1
1
77
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5335.1.1
journal article
276875
10.11646/zootaxa.5335.1.1
93074190-36cb-467e-a6ef-103ac5e13f4b
1175-5326
8261375
E4E9FD1D-1923-416E-A5B5-4AC62A4F5DCD
Umbotectum
Solà & Sluys
,
gen. nov.
Diagnosis
Bipaliinae
with an elongated body and a lunate or sickle-shaped head with auricles that can be notably elongated and recurved. Conical penis papilla containing a comparatively broad ejaculatory duct. Sperm ducts opening into the antero-ventral section of the bulbar cavity or seminal vesicle, the wall of the latter being highly folded. Dorsal wall of the common atrium with the shape of a broad, upside-down dome. Large, spherical and muscularized glands, secretory reservoirs, or glandular crypts located within the parenchyma of the hemispherical roof of the common atrium, being arranged concentrically as a kind of wreath around the openings of the female genital duct and the male atrium. The bulb of each of these glands is provided with a narrow lumen that via a slit-like ventral portion opens into the common atrium.