Imogine mediterranea ( Galleni, 1976 ) Jennings & Newman, 1996

Gammoudi, Mehrez, Garbouj, Myriam, Egger, Bernhard & Tekaya, Saïda, 2017, Updated inventory and distribution of free-living flatworms from Tunisian waters, Zootaxa 4263 (1), pp. 120-138 : 126

Imogine mediterranea ( Galleni, 1976) Jennings & Newman, 1996

( Fig. 2 e)

Habitat. 10 specimens were collected from Mytilus galloprovincialis beds.

Locality. Bizerta lagoon (37° 13' 19.29" N; 9° 55' 49.94" E).

Localities in Tunisia from bibliography. Bizerta lagoon ( Gammoudi et al. 2009; Gammoudi et al. 2011; Gammoudi & Tekaya 2012; Gammoudi et al. 2012a; Gammoudi et al. 2016a).

Other localities in the world. Italy: Livorno, La Spezia, Pisa ( Galleni 1976) and Liguria ( Wenzel et al. 1992) ; Croatia ( Bytinski-Salz 1935); Spain: Mar Menor ( Marquina et al. 2014a).

Remark. I. mediterranea was found to present a pest in a culture of Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 in Bizerta lagoon ( Gammoudi et al. 2016a).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Polyclads from Tunisian waters. Dorsal view in all panels, anterior to the left. a Leptoplana mediterranea. b Leptoplana tremellaris. c Echinoplana celerrima. d Theama mediterranea; the depicted specimen was collected in Calvi, Corse. e Imogine mediterranea. f Discocelis tigrina. g Cestoplana rubrocinta. h Comoplana agilis. i Prosthiostomum siphunculus. j Prostheceraeus moseleyi. k Thysanozoon brocchii. l Pseudoceros maximus. m Yungia aurantiaca n hatching in Leptoplana tremellaris. o hatched four-eyed juvenile of Leptoplana tremellaris. Scale bars: 2 a – c, 2 e – m: 5 mm; 2 d, 2 n – o: 100 microns.