Description of two new Discocelis species (Polycladida: Acotylea: Discocelidae) from the Persian Gulf with a review of the genus
Author
Maghsoudlou, Abdolvahab
Author
Rahimian, Hassan
text
Zootaxa
2013
3683
3
247
266
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3683.3.2
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1175-5326
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Key to the valid
Discocelis
species
1. Male atrium with muscular folds (villus-like projections)....................................................... 2
- Male atrium without muscular folds....................................................................... 3
2. Male atrium with numerous muscular folds, cerebral eyes as anterior and posterior groups............................4
- Male atrium with scattered muscular folds, cerebral eyes as single elongate group....................
D. fulva
Kato, 1944
3. Marginal eyes extend anteriorly.......................................................................... 5
- Marginal eyes extend near to posterior end of body........................................................... 6
4. Male atrium with few prostatoids, without prostatoid organs on posterior lobe's branch dorsal to vagina......................................................................................................
D. pusilla
Kato, 1938
- Male atrium with numerous prostatoids, with prostatoid organs on posterior lobe's branch dorsal to vagina.......................................................................................
D. japonica
Yeri and Kaburaki, 1918
5. Cerebral eyes as anterior and posterior groups.................................................
D. persica
sp. nov.
- Cerebral eyes as single elongate group.....................................
D
.
tigrina
(Blanchard, 1847)
Lang, 1884
6. Male atrium with two lobes, anterior lobe of the male atrium with prostatoids around the lobe, vagina has two dorsal and ventral curves.................................................................................
D. hollemani
sp. nov.
- Male atrium has more than two lobes, anterior lobe of the male atrium with prostatoids on one side, vagina has one dorsal and ventral curve.................................................................
D. parvimaculata
Beveridge, 2000