Pseudoceros maximus Lang, 1884

Gammoudi, Mehrez, Garbouj, Myriam, Egger, Bernhard & Tekaya, Saïda, 2017, Updated inventory and distribution of free-living flatworms from Tunisian waters, Zootaxa 4263 (1), pp. 120-138 : 127

Pseudoceros maximus Lang, 1884

( Fig. 2 l)

Habitat. 3 specimens were collected from oyster beds and 2 specimens were found under rocks.

Locality. Bizerta lagoon (37° 13' 19.29" N; 9° 55' 49.94" E), lagoon of Ghar El-Melh (37° 10' 09.81" N; 10° 13' 04.27" E), Bouficha beach (36° 16' 48.36" N; 10° 29' 36.98" E) and Soliman beach (36° 43' 47.83" N; 10° 27' 52.95" E), La Goulette beach (36° 48' 24.40" N; 10° 14' 54.53" E).

Localities in Tunisia from bibliography. Gulf of Tunis: La Goulette (Gammoudi et al. 2011; Gammoudi & Tekaya 2012).

Other localities in the world. Gulf of Naples ( Lang, 1884); Trieste ( Steinböck 1933); coasts of Catalonia ( Novell 2001); Croatia ( Vàtova 1928) , Turkey ( Çinar 2014).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Polyclads from Tunisian waters. Dorsal view in all panels, anterior to the left. a Leptoplana mediterranea. b Leptoplana tremellaris. c Echinoplana celerrima. d Theama mediterranea; the depicted specimen was collected in Calvi, Corse. e Imogine mediterranea. f Discocelis tigrina. g Cestoplana rubrocinta. h Comoplana agilis. i Prosthiostomum siphunculus. j Prostheceraeus moseleyi. k Thysanozoon brocchii. l Pseudoceros maximus. m Yungia aurantiaca n hatching in Leptoplana tremellaris. o hatched four-eyed juvenile of Leptoplana tremellaris. Scale bars: 2 a – c, 2 e – m: 5 mm; 2 d, 2 n – o: 100 microns.