LEPTOPLANIDAE Stimpson, 1857

Faubel, A. & Warwick, R. M., 2005, The marine flora and fauna of the Isles of Scilly: Free-living Plathelminthes (‘ Turbellaria’), Journal of Natural History 39 (1), pp. 1-45 : 21

Family LEPTOPLANIDAE Stimpson, 1857

Leptoplana tremellaris ( Müller 1773) Oersted, 1843

Fasciola tremellaris Müller, 1773: 72 .

Planaria tremellaris: Müller, 1776: 223 .

Planaria pellucida Bosc, 1803: 63 .

Planaria flexilis Dalyell, 1814: 5–23 , Figures 1 , 2 .

Leptoplana hyalina Ehrenberg, 1831 : pl. V: 6.

Polycelis leυigatus Quatrefages, 1845: 130, 134–135, pls IV: 2a, b, VI: 11, VIII: 6, 9, 10. Leptoplana tremellaris taurica Jacubova, 1909: 21–23 , Figures 9 , 10 , pl. I: 5.

Material examined

Site 8: one specimen in squash preparation.

Geographical distribution. NE Atlantic: Ireland, Orkneys, Shetlands; Outer Hebrides; Irish Sea: Ireland, Isle of Man, England ( Wales); North Channel: Belfast Bay; Celtic Sea: Ireland; English Channel: England (Plymouth Sound, Guernsey), France (Brittany); North Sea; Skagerrak: Sweden (Gullmarfjord, Marstranfjord), Norway (Oslofjord); Kattegat: Denmark (Århus Bugt); White Sea; Mediterranean Sea: Morocco; Tyrrhenian Sea; Black Sea; Adriatic Sea: Gulf of Trieste; Levantian Sea: Egypt (Port Said); Red Sea: Ethiopia (Tor) ( Lang 1884; Gamble 1893; Hallez 1893; Micoletzky 1910; Bock 1913; Southern 1936; Prudhoe 1982; Faubel 1983).

Figures

Figure 1. Haplogonaria arenicolae sp. nov. Dorsal view in squash preparation. Scale bar: 200 Mm.

Figure 2. Archimacrostomum sublitorale sp. nov. (A) Dorsal view in squash preparation (dorsal gut in area of gonads omitted); (B) male sclerotized stylet; (C) male copulatory apparatus. Scale bars: 500 Mm (A); 50 Mm (B, C).

Figure 9. Haploυejdoυskya scilliensis sp. nov. (A) Dorsal view in squash preparation; (B) sclerotized male stylet. Balgetia cf. semicirculifera (C) sclerotized male stylet. Scale bars: 200 Mm (A); 10 Mm (B); 20 Mm (C).

Figure 10. Dalyelliida sp., dorsal view in squash preparation. Scale bar: 250 Mm.