Oxypolella alba, BERGENDAL, 1903

Kajihara, Hiroshi, Abukawa, Shushi & Chernyshev, Alexei V., 2022, Exploring the basal topology of the heteronemertean tree of life: establishment of a new family, along with turbotaxonomy of Valenciniidae (Nemertea: Pilidiophora: Heteronemertea), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196, pp. 503-548 : 518-519

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac015

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:78C56409-FCCF-4116-8D8C-FF66B247C56C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7043834

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038A8132-EE64-ED56-FC73-C866FDF5FE53

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scientific name

Oxypolella alba
status

 

OXYPOLELLA ALBA BERGENDAL, 1903 View in CoL View at ENA

Oxypolella alba Bergendal, 1903: 144–146 View in CoL ; Strand et al., 2010: 114–115.

Sequence: AF103767 View Materials , 16S (484 bp), determined by Sundberg & Saur (1998) from a specimen collected on the Swedish west coast .

Distribution: Sweden ( Bergendal, 1903; Sundberg & Saur, 1998).

Remarks: Strand et al. (2010: 115) summarized the species with, ‘Length up to 5 cm. Body white and glossy, circular in cross section, not tapering posteriorly (apex rounded), typically contracted and held in an arched posture. Skin thick, wax-like and slightly wrinkled. Head eye-less and pointed, without horizontal lateral cephalic slits, but demarcated by a transverse furrow encircling the body. So far only recorded from one mud bottom site off the Swedish west coast. Biology and distribution otherwise unknown.’

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Nemertea

Class

Pilidiophora

Order

Heteronemertea

Family

Lineidae

Genus

Oxypolella

Loc

Oxypolella alba

Kajihara, Hiroshi, Abukawa, Shushi & Chernyshev, Alexei V. 2022
2022
Loc

Oxypolella alba

Strand M & Samuelsson H & Sundberg P 2010: 114
Bergendal D 1903: 146
1903
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