Pleioplana okusi Bulnes, Kalkan & Karhan, 2009

Rodríguez, Jorge, Grande, Cristina, Bulnes, NataliaVeronica, Almon, Bruno, Perez, Jacinto & Noreña, Carolina, 2017, Systematic revision of the family Pleioplanidae Faubel, 1983 (Polycladida, Acotylea): new genus and combinations, European Journal of Taxonomy 264, pp. 1-30 : 20

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2017.264

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:875C1C10-71A2-4E6D-AD58-D4EAF1517229

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3844436

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA8015-126B-FFEC-C5D2-CF0CE681FA50

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Pleioplana okusi Bulnes, Kalkan & Karhan, 2009
status

 

Pleioplana okusi Bulnes, Kalkan & Karhan, 2009 View in CoL

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Pleioplana okusi Bulnes, Kalkan & Karhan, 2009: 8–9 View in CoL View Cited Treatment , fig. 3.

Type locality

TURKEY: Altinkum, Bosphorus Strait (Bosporus).

Description

Body shape oval. Cryptic colour. Translucent dorsal appearance. Longitudinal median line not outstanding. Heterogeneous mottled background with spots and dots. Smooth dorsal surface. Nuchal tentacles absent. Tentacular knobs present. Marginal eyes absent. Tentacles absent; instead tentacular eyes present in rounded and compact clusters. Dorsal and ventral frontal eyes absent. Cerebral eyes in two clusters. Pharynx located in second or last body third, strongly ruffled and ventrally oriented. Oral pore position in second body third and in posterior region of pharynx. Intestine with numerous branches without anastomosis. Intestinal vesicles absent. Gonopores clearly separated.

MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM. Single male pore. Male apparatus not enclosed within muscular bulb, oriented backwards and located in last body third. Ejaculatory duct with straight stylet. Prostatic vesicle interpolated. Connection between ejaculatory duct and prostatic vesicle with projection. Internal glandular lining of prostatic vesicle with tubular chambers. Extravesicular prostatic secretion. Prostatic glands located at proximal end of prostatic vesicle. Seminal vesicle simple or spindle-like. Spermiducal bulbs absent.

FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM. Vagina elongated, tube-like, looping towards male complex. Bulbous Lang’s vesicle. Paired uterus. Uterine vesicles absent. Tube-like cement chamber. Endolecithal eggs.

Biology

Found on a hard bottomed mussel bed of Mytilus galloprovincialis .

Distribution

Bosporus Strait, Turkey.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Platyhelminthes

Class

Rhabditophora

Order

Polycladida

Family

Pleioplanidae

Genus

Pleioplana

Loc

Pleioplana okusi Bulnes, Kalkan & Karhan, 2009

Rodríguez, Jorge, Grande, Cristina, Bulnes, NataliaVeronica, Almon, Bruno, Perez, Jacinto & Noreña, Carolina 2017
2017
Loc

Pleioplana okusi Bulnes, Kalkan & Karhan, 2009: 8–9

Bulnes V. N. & Kalkan E. & Karhan S. U. 2009: 9
2009
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