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<emphasis id="B913C914FFB5FFBCFF50F906716576D8" bold="true" box="[151,363,1677,1703]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="61">Discocelis tigrina</emphasis>
(Blanchard, 1847)
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<emphasis id="B913C914FFB5FFBCFF50F94471B37696" bold="true" box="[151,445,1743,1769]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="61">Morphological features.</emphasis>
The body is oval shaped with a posterior end more pointed than the anterior. The length of specimens can reach
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. Dorsal face is cream to white. Many small spots of brown color are present throughout the dorsal surface and are more concentrated on the median line. Tentacles are lacking. Tentacular and cerebral eyes form two black clusters (
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). Marginal eyes are distributed along the two anterior thirds of body. Observation of whitish transparent ventral face shows a huge ruffled pharynx (
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).
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<emphasis id="B913C914FFB2FFBBFF50FD74710E7368" bold="true" box="[151,256,767,791]" pageId="4" pageNumber="62">Figure 1.</emphasis>
Anterior dorsal region in
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. See the tentacular (te) and cerebral eyes (ce) forming two paramedian bands, scale bar: 0.5 mm.
<emphasis id="B913C914FFB2FFBBFDA0FC95728C7349" bold="true" box="[615,642,798,822]" pageId="4" pageNumber="62">B:</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="4C676E85FFB2FFBBFD4EFC96739E734A" authorityName="Bock" authorityYear="1913" box="[649,912,797,821]" family="Prosthiostomidae" genus="Letoplana" kingdom="Animalia" order="Polycladida" pageId="4" pageNumber="62" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="mediterranea">Letoplana mediterranea</taxonomicName>
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See clusters of tentacular (te) and cerebral eyes (ce), scale bar: 0.5 mm.
<emphasis id="B913C914FFB2FFBBFE58FCB771B5732B" bold="true" box="[415,443,828,852]" pageId="4" pageNumber="62">C:</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="4C676E85FFB2FFBBFE05FCB7728B732B" authorityName="Lang" authorityYear="1884" baseAuthorityName="Blanchard" baseAuthorityYear="1847" box="[450,645,828,852]" family="Discocelididae" genus="Discocelis" kingdom="Animalia" order="Polycladida" pageId="4" pageNumber="62" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="tigrina">Discocelis tigrina</taxonomicName>
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Note the presence of cerebral and tentacular eyes clusters, scale bar: 0.5 mm.
<emphasis id="B913C914FFB2FFBBFF13FCD070FE730C" bold="true" box="[212,240,859,883]" pageId="4" pageNumber="62">D:</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C676E85FFB2FFBBFEC3FCD071F6730C" authorityName="Jennings &amp; Newman" authorityYear="1996" baseAuthorityName="Galleni" baseAuthorityYear="1976" box="[260,504,859,883]" family="Gnesiocerotidae" genus="Imogine" kingdom="Animalia" order="Polycladida" pageId="4" pageNumber="62" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="mediterranea">
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. Note the presence of two everted nuchal tentacles (arrows), scale bar: 0.5 mm.
<emphasis id="B913C914FFB2FFBBFF50FCF270BC73EE" bold="true" box="[151,178,889,913]" pageId="4" pageNumber="62">E:</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="4C676E85FFB2FFBBFF7FFCF1718B73EE" box="[184,389,890,913]" family="Pseudocerotidae" genus="Yungia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Polycladida" pageId="4" pageNumber="62" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="aurantiaca">Yungia aurantiaca</taxonomicName>
.
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See the two marginal tentacles (arrows) and cerebral eyes spots (arrowhead), scale bar: 1 mm.
<emphasis id="B913C914FFB2FFBBFF50FC1370BE73CF" bold="true" box="[151,176,920,944]" pageId="4" pageNumber="62">F:</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C676E85FFB2FFBBFF70FC1371AD73CF" box="[183,419,920,944]" family="Pseudocerotidae" genus="Thysanozoon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Polycladida" pageId="4" pageNumber="62" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="brocchii">
<emphasis id="B913C914FFB2FFBBFF70FC1371AD73CF" box="[183,419,920,944]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="62">Thysanozoon brocchii</emphasis>
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. Dorsal faces provided with papillae and developed marginal tentacles (arrows), scale bar: 1 mm.
<emphasis id="B913C914FFB2FFBBFF09FC3C70E273B0" bold="true" box="[206,236,951,975]" pageId="4" pageNumber="62">G:</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="4C676E85FFB2FFBBFF3EFC3D720973B1" authorityName="Lang" authorityYear="1884" box="[249,519,950,974]" family="Euryleptidae" genus="Prostheceraeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Polycladida" pageId="4" pageNumber="62" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="moseleyi">Prostheceraeus moseleyi</taxonomicName>
.
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Note the presence of marginal tentacles (arrows) and yellow marginal line, scale bar: mm.
<emphasis id="B913C914FFB2FFBBFF17FC5D70E07391" bold="true" box="[208,238,982,1006]" pageId="4" pageNumber="62">H:</emphasis>
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<taxonomicName id="4C676E85FFB2FFBBFF3FFC5E723D7392" authorityName="Lang" authorityYear="1884" baseAuthorityName="Delle Chiaje" baseAuthorityYear="1822" box="[248,563,981,1005]" family="Prosthiostomidae" genus="Prosthiostomum" kingdom="Animalia" order="Polycladida" pageId="4" pageNumber="62" phylum="Platyhelminthes" rank="species" species="siphunculus">Prosthiostomum siphunculus</taxonomicName>
.
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The cerebral eyes (ce) are not included in the semi circle formed by marginal eyes (me), scale bar: 1 mm.
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<emphasis id="B913C914FFB2FFBBFF50FBDC71A5740E" bold="true" box="[151,427,1111,1137]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="62">Reproductive features.</emphasis>
A pair of uteri and a pair of vasa deferentia are visible by transparency in living specimens extending on either side of the pharynx (
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). A common genital pore located in the second fourth of body. Pyriform prostatoid organs provided with muscular wall are seen also by transparency. The female genital apparatus is provided with a horse-shoes shaped Langs vesicle (
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).
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Histological sections show the common antrum, the prostatoid organs and the vagina (
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). The diagrammatic reconstruction of copulatory apparatus show the male apparatus formed by the penis and prostatoid organs projected in a common antrum. The genital pore is common. The female apparatus is formed by vagina and Langs vesicle (
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)
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<emphasis id="B913C914FFB2FFBBFF50FA0D717D75DF" bold="true" box="[151,371,1414,1440]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="62">Associated fauna.</emphasis>
They were found essentially among oysters
<taxonomicName id="4C676E85FFB2FFBBFC58FA0C755675DE" authority="(Thunberg, 1793)" baseAuthorityName="Thunberg" baseAuthorityYear="1793" box="[927,1368,1414,1441]" class="Bivalvia" family="Ostreidae" genus="Crassostrea" kingdom="Animalia" order="Ostreida" pageId="4" pageNumber="62" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="gigas">
<emphasis id="B913C914FFB2FFBBFC58FA0C747775DF" box="[927,1145,1415,1441]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="62">Crassostrea gigas</emphasis>
(Thunberg, 1793)
</taxonomicName>
. It is likely that the flatworms are feeding on the bivalves.
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