Austrodalyellia, Hochberg, Rick & Cannon, Lester R. G., 2002

Hochberg, Rick & Cannon, Lester R. G., 2002, Two new freshwater rhabdocoels, Austrodalyellia gen. nov. and Haplodidymos gen. nov. (Platyhelminthes), from Queensland, Australia, Zootaxa 44, pp. 1-15 : 2-3

Genus Austrodalyellia gen. nov.

Type Material. Holotype (QM G219246): wholemount in de Faure’s fluid. Paratypes: three wholemounts in de Faure’s fluid (QM G219247­9) and five longitudinally sectioned specimens (QM G218250­4).

Type Repository. Queensland Museum, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Type Locality. Clean Lake, University of Queensland, St. Lucia campus, Brisbane, Australia. Shoreline of lake among aquatic vegetation.

Etymology. Name refers to the southern location of the new genus and its close relations to Dalyellia and Microdalyellia: Austro (L. southern) and dalyellia .

Diagnosis. Dalyelliidae with heavy pigmentation and features characteristic of the family. Male reproductive system located posterior to pharynx and consists of paired compact testes, short vasa deferentia, and copulatory organ. The copulatory organ is muscular and houses a proximal vesicula seminalis atop a glandular vesicula granulorum and a distal complex stylet. The stylet consists of five hollow tines including a dorsal V­shaped tine with short proximal handles, median paired lanceolate­shaped tines, and ventral paired blade­shaped tines. The female system includes paired finger­like vitellaria, a solitary ovary, separate receptaculum seminis, and bursa copulatrix.

Type species. Austrodalyellia ariena sp. nov.

Etymology. Species epithet refers to the structure of the copulatory stylet and its similarity to a peeled banana: ariena (L. banana).