Pleioplana okusi Bulnes, Kalkan & Karhan, 2009
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https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2017.264 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:875C1C10-71A2-4E6D-AD58-D4EAF1517229 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3844436 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA8015-126B-FFEC-C5D2-CF0CE681FA50 |
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Carolina |
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Pleioplana okusi Bulnes, Kalkan & Karhan, 2009 |
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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.
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Pleioplana okusi Bulnes, Kalkan & Karhan, 2009
Rodríguez, Jorge, Grande, Cristina, Bulnes, NataliaVeronica, Almon, Bruno, Perez, Jacinto & Noreña, Carolina 2017 |
Pleioplana okusi Bulnes, Kalkan & Karhan, 2009: 8–9
Bulnes V. N. & Kalkan E. & Karhan S. U. 2009: 9 |