Revision of Phaenocora Ehrenberg, 1836 (Rhabditophora, Typhloplanidae, Phaenocorinae) with the description of two new species
Author
Houben, Albrecht M.
Author
Steenkiste, Niels Van
Author
Artois, Tom J.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3889
3
301
354
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3889.3.1
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Phaenocora anophthalma
(
Vejdovský, 1895
)
Hofsten, 1907
(Figs 14D1–D2, 15F)
Derostoma anophtalmum
Vejdovský 1895
: 114
, 128, 129, plate 5 Figs 37, 37a, plate 6 Figs 45–50;
Dorner 1902
: 493
;
Sekera 1904
: 440
–441; Cognetti de Martiis 1916: 233;
Gilbert 1935
: 294
, 284, 342, 357;
Gilbert 1938b
: 216
.
Phaenocora anophthalma
Hofsten 1907
: 550
–551;
Graff 1909
: 93
, 95, Fig. 192;
Hofsten 1911
: 38
, 45;
Gilbert 1935
: 318
.
Phaenocora vejdovskyi
Graff 1913
: 135
, 146, Fig. 148;
Meixner 1915
: 536
, 539, 540–541;
Beklemischev 1929
: 534
;
Gilbert 1935
: 284
, 294, 342–343, 352, 357, 364–366, 369, TextFigs 3Ia, 3Ib, table 1, 2;
Gilbert 1938b
: 216
.
Phoenocora vejdovskyi
(incorrect subsequent spelling) Cognetti de Martiis 1916: 233.
Known distribution:
Klecany near Prague (
Czech Republic
) in mud from a pond (
Vejdovský 1895
;
Graff 1913
), Former East Prussia (i.e. present-day
Latvia
and
Lithuania
) (
Dorner 1902
;
Graff 1913
).
Material examined:
None.
Diagnosis:
Animals up to
3 mm
long, with a small tail. Visible eyes absent. Subdermal pigmentation is present, exact colouration unknown. Zoochlorellae present, sparsely distributed.
Male
copulatory organ of the duplex-type IIIB. Spines in four rows, three of which are situated at the ventral side of the copulatory organ and the fourth at its dorsal side. In addition to these rows of spines, four dorsal spines with a basal plate occur. Female genital system of the
AGLOBULATA
-
type
or the
UNIPUNCTATA
-
type
.
Remark:
The presence of a burso-intestinal duct was not described by
Vejdovský (1895)
.
Gilbert (1935)
assumed its presence because the proximal part of the intestinal bursa was described as a long channel-like blind sac (see
Hofsten 1911
and
Fig. 15
F: el).