Pseudoceros bicolor marcusorum, Litvaitis & Bolaños & Quiroga, 2010

Litvaitis, Marian K., Bolaños, D. Marcela & Quiroga, Sigmer Y., 2010, When names are wrong and colours deceive: unravelling the Pseudoceros bicolor species complex (Turbellaria: Polycladida), Journal of Natural History 44 (13 - 14), pp. 829-845 : 841

Pseudoceros bicolor marcusorum subsp. nov.

Type material

Holotype, one mature specimen (12 × 3 mm) as serial histological sections of the reproductive system (three slides), remaining part of body as whole mount (one slide); YPM No. 47939. Collected 3 June 2006 at 4 m depth from a reef in St Ann’s Bay , Jamaica 18°45.514 N; 77°22.416 W.

Distribution

Known from the type locality, and also from Belize, Honduras, Florida, US Virgin Islands, Panama, Curaçao and Dominica. Also reported from Brazil (J. Bahia and V. Padula , Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, personal communication and Figure 4N ) .

Figures

Figure 4. Colour variations observed in Pseudoceros rawlinsonae (A–I) and Pseudoceros bicolor (J–P). Specimens collected in the US Virgin Islands (A, I), the Bahamas (B), Curaçao (C), Honduras (D), Florida (E, H, L), Belize (F, G, J, K, P), Panama (M), Brazil (N; photo courtesy of V. Padula), and Jamaica (O). Note golden-yellow/orange marginal line surrounding all specimens of P. rawlinsonae, bright yellow/green marginal line around some specimens of P. bicolor (N, O), and interrupted submarginal rust-coloured band of Pseudoceros bicolor marcusorum (P). Size range of specimens, from 7 mm (F) to 28 mm (E).