Acoela (Acoelomorpha) from the northern beaches of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and a systematic revision of the family Otocelididae
Author
Hooge, Matthew D.
Author
Rocha, Carlos E. F.
text
Zootaxa
2006
1335
1
50
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.174287
26ac73b9-1c53-4f82-bc02-78a055ba31e9
1175-5326
174287
Haplocelis dichona
(
Marcus, 1954
)
(
Fig. 24
)
Otocelis dichona
:
Marcus 1954
(p 429).
Haplocelis dichone
:
Dörjes 1968
(p 102).
Haplocelis dichona
:
Dörjes and Karling 1975
(p 180);
Ehlers and Dörjes 1979
(p 34).
Material
.
MZUSP
PL
. 192, one set of 1.5-µm-thick serial sagittal sections of epoxyembedded specimen stained with toluidine blue; living specimens in squeeze preparation; whole mounts for fluorescence imaging of musculature.
Locality
. Praia São Francisco, São Sebastião, São Paulo,
Brazil
, from intertidal coarse sand (
23°45’45.1”S
,
45°24’27.1”W
).
Description
. Living specimens ~
950 m
long and ~
250 m
wide (
Fig. 24
A). Body without coloration in transmitted light. Rhabdoids scattered across body. Mouth opening on ventral surface, middle of body.
Ovaries and testes paired. Common gonopore terminal at posterior end; opens dorsally to vagina and ventrally to male copulatory organ. Vagina leads to bursa with one or two winding bursal nozzles (
Fig. 24
B). Long, coiled, muscular, glandular penis invaginated into muscular seminal vesicle containing sperm (
Fig. 24
B).
Remarks
. This species can be distinguished from all other species of acoels by its winding curlicue bursal nozzle and penis.
Marcus (1954)
described his specimens of
H. dichona
,
collected from Ilhabela, as having two bursal nozzles; however, all of our specimens possessed only a single nozzle.