Two new freshwater rhabdocoels, Austrodalyellia gen. nov. and Haplodidymos gen. nov. (Platyhelminthes), from Queensland, Australia
Author
Hochberg, Rick
Author
Cannon, Lester R. G.
text
Zootaxa
2002
44
1
15
journal article
51452
10.5281/zenodo.156078
8f14b97c-8bc9-4df2-94b0-db4c93cd50e3
11755326
156078
Haplodidymos
gen. nov.
Type
Material.
Holotype
(QM G219256), de Faure’s wholemount of adult specimens with sclerotic stylet.
Paratypes
: de Faure’s wholemount of adult with stylet (QM G219257), de Faure’s wholemount of adult with egg (QM G219258), and one sectioned specimen (QM G219259).
Type
Repository.
Queensland Museum, South Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia
.
Type
Locality.
Shoreline of Clean Lake, University of Queensland,
St. Lucia
campus, Brisbane, QLD.
Etymology.
the genus name refers to the presence of a single long testis:
Haplo
(Gr. single),
didymos
(Gr. testicle).
Diagnosis.
A freshwater typhloplanid worm with anatomical features characteristic of the family
Typhloplanidae
. Body length 500720 um long with an anterior pair of large red eyes and short paired tracts of adenal rhabdites. Body is transparent except for several radiallyarranged pigment bands. Verticallyoriented pharynx rosulatus in posterior onethird of body. Single, long medial testis ventral to gut. All other male organs are posterior to the pharynx including a copulatory organ with distinct vesicula seminalis and indistinct vesicula granulorum. Within the glandular posterior zone is a slightly curved, weakly sclerotic stylet. Female system posterior to the pharynx and includes a solitary ovary with separate receptaculum seminis, muscular bursa copulatrix, and posterior uterus. All reproductive organs communicate with a single genital atrium and common gonopore.
Type
species.
Haplodidymos rubroculatus
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 79
)
Etymology.
Species name refers to the presence of paired red eyes;
rubro
(L. red) and
oculatus
(L. eyed).