Cheliplana sarnensis Gobert, Reygel & Artois, 2017

Gobert, Stefan, Diez, Yander L., Monnens, Marlies, Reygel, Patrick, Van Steenkiste, Niels W. L., Leander, Brian S. & Artois, Tom, 2021, A revision of the genus Cheliplana de Beauchamp, 1927 (Rhabdocoela: Schizorhynchia), with the description of six new species, Zootaxa 4970 (3), pp. 453-494 : 480

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4970.3.2

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4766786

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cheliplana sarnensis Gobert, Reygel & Artois, 2017
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Cheliplana sarnensis Gobert, Reygel & Artois, 2017

Material examined. Reference material. The holotype ( SMNH Type 8907) and 4 whole mounts and 4 serially sectioned specimens from Lanzarote (HU VII.4.45–VIII.1.02) .

Known distribution. Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain ( Gobert et al. 2017).

Remarks. The caudal region of Cheliplana sarnensis is very extensible, similar to the situation in C. varicauda . As such, the overall body length depends on the state of contraction. The proboscis is provided with a pair of curved, 13–20-µm-long proboscis hooks, without denticles. The hook supports are small, only 7 μm long. The male genital apparatus has a single functional seminal vesicle. The copulatory bulb contains a proximal prostate vesicle and, more distally, an ~84-µm-long sclerotised ejaculatory duct. The distal part of the ejaculatory duct is transformed in a ~42-µm-long cirrus armed with very fine spines of uniform length. The vagina externa and bursa are connected to the ovary through three intertwined, funnel-shaped, sclerotised spermatic ducts.

SMNH

Department of Paleozoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Platyhelminthes

Class

Rhabditophora

Order

Rhabdocoela

InfraOrder

Schizorhynchia

Family

Karkinorhynchidae

Genus

Cheliplana

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