Revision of Trigonostomum Schmidt, 1852 (Platyhelminthes, Typhloplanoida, Trigonostomidae) with the description of seven new species
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Willems, Wim R.
Author
Artois, Tom J.
Author
Vermin, Wouter A.
Author
Schockaert, Ernest R.
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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2004
2004-06-30
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TRIGONOSTOMUM BREITFUSSI
(
GRAFF, 1905
)
MEIXNER 1924
(
FIG. 7E
)
Alternative species name: trigonostomum-breitfussi.
Hyporcus breitfussi
Graff, 1905: 112
, t. 3, figs 12–16; 1913: 301–302, figs 261, 262.
Hyporhynchus breitfussi
Meixner, 1925: 256
.
Trigonostomum breitfussi
Meixner, 1924b: 89
, 91–94, 96–99, 105, figs 3, 4;
Steinböck, 1932: 309
;
Ax, 1952: 91–92
, fig. 2;
Westblad, 1954: 9
;
Armonies & Hellwig-Armonies, 1987: 104
, table 5;
Joffe & Kotikova, 1989: 70–72
, 74–77, 79–82, figs 2, 3, 6 and 7.
Known distribution:
Barents Sea (
Graff, 1905
), Baltic Sea (
Ax, 1952
),
Greenland
(
Steinböck, 1932
), North Sea (
Meixner, 1924b
,
1925
;
Ax, 1952
;
Armonies & Hellwig-Armonies, 1987
),
Norway
(
Westblad, 1954
).
New locality:
Sweden
,
Gullmaren
,
Kristineberg
, 23,
26 and 27 July 1932
, Westblad (coll.
SMNH
;
type
locality)
.
Sweden
,
Gullmaren
, on algae,
6 August 1945
, Westblad (coll.
SMNH
)
.
Sweden
,
Gullmaren
,
Harpo Bedar
, on red algae,
20 m
deep,
7 August 2001
.
Material examined:
Observations on live material from
Sweden
.
Neotype
(
SMNH
, no. 47461). Two whole mounts (
SMNH
, nos. 47462–3) and two serially sectioned specimens (
SMNH
, nos. 47469–70) from
Sweden
.
Diagnosis:
Trigonostomum
species with copulatory organ ± 62 Mm long. Stylet ± 64 Mm long, proximally bent over, 180∞ and with a crest. Mantle with one blunt plate (shorter than the stylet), surrounds only the distal part of the stylet. Bursal appendage 20– 24 Mm long, proximally with a barrel-like casing and nine or ten distal tubes.
Remarks:
The observation of
Ax (1952)
that there is only one plate-like structure instead of two (
Graff, 1905
), surrounding the tubiform stylet, can be confirmed. This plate has a spine-like projection at its distal end, which lies close to the stylet but is displaced in highly squeezed animals (
Fig. 7E
1
). The bursal appendage is short (
Graff, 1913
24 Mm;
Ax, 1952: 20– 21
Mm), barrel-shaped and consists of nine, maybe ten, short tubes (
Fig. 7E
3
).