Unguiphora sp. A

Curini-Galletti, M., Oggiano, G. & Casu, M., 2002, The genus Nematoplana Meixner, 1938 (Platyhelminthes: Unguiphora) in eastern Australia, Journal of Natural History 36 (9), pp. 1023-1046 : 1041

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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930110039585

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scientific name

Unguiphora sp. A
status

 

Unguiphora sp. A

Material examined

Queensland, Green Island , intertidal in medium to coarse coralline sand (September 1993), whole mount (lactophenol), in the same slide of the holotype of N. martensi sp. nov. (G211823) .

Description and remarks

An unpigmented, medium-sized, cnidocyst-bearing unguiphorid, without pigmented eye-spots. With an elongate, horizontally orientated, pharynx, about ve times longer than broad.

The only unguiphorids with an elongate pharynx are Nematoplana caribbea Curini-Galletti and Martens, 1992 , from Puerto Rico and N. caesarea Curini-Galletti and Martens, 1992 , from the eastern Mediterranean. Both are cnidocyst-bearing, and have been considered as sister species by Curini-Galletti and Martens (1992). The present species might thus be the third species in the complex, the rst known from the Indo-Paci c region.

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