A new family of lithophoran Proseriata (Platyhelminthes), with the description of seven new species from the Indo-Pacific and South America, and the proposal of three new genera
Author
Schockaert, Ernest R.
Author
Curini-Galletti, Marco
Author
Ridder, Wouter De
Author
Volonterio, Odile
Author
Artois, Tom
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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2009
2009-04-30
155
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759
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https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00463.x
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10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00463.x
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MEIDIAMA LUTHERI
MARCUS 1946
Diagnoses:
Meidiama lutheri
: species of
Meidiama
with a curved stylet of about 60-Mm long, accompanied by 10–12 needles of 30-Mm long, with a small terminal hook of about one-third to one-quarter of the length of the needles; close to 100 testes.
Occurrence:
Meidiama lutheri
: Beach of
Guarujà
, near
Santos
,
Brazil
; coarse shell gravel (
type
locality).
Material studied:
Meidiama lutheri
:
two whole mounts, one indicated as
lectotype
(
SMNH 7348
); two slides with dispersed sections of several individuals, and of very poor quality, containing very fragmentary information (
paralectotypes
:
SMNH 7349–7350
)
.