Updated inventory and distribution of free-living flatworms from Tunisian waters
Author
Gammoudi, Mehrez
Author
Garbouj, Myriam
Author
Egger, Bernhard
Author
Tekaya, Saïda
text
Zootaxa
2017
4263
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journal article
33097
10.11646/zootaxa.4263.1.5
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Cercyra hastata
Schmidt, 1861
(
Fig. 4
e–f)
Habitat.
4 specimens were collected under stones on a sandy beach.
Locality.
Berkoukech beach, Tabarka (36° 57' 10.04'' N; 08° 45' 43.99'' E).
Localities in Tunisia from bibliography.
No records
Remark.
Cercyra hastata
is one of the preferred preys of the polyclad
Prosthiostomum siphunculus
(see
Gammoudi
et al.
2012a
). The polyclad was observed to attack the triclad with its tubular pharynx.
Other localities in the world.
Turkey (
Ax 1959
);
France
(
Du Plessis
1907
); Spanish Mediterranean coasts; Italian coasts; Atlantic Cantabrian coasts (
Vila-Farre
et al.
2009
); Black sea (
Sluys 1989
)
; Ukraine (
Murina, 1981
).