Comoplana agilis ( Lang, 1884 ) Faubel, 1983

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 : 126

Comoplana agilis ( Lang, 1884) Faubel, 1983

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Habitat. 2 specimens were found in muddy substrate.

Locality. Chikly: small island located in the northern part of the lagoon of Tunis ( 36° 49' 00.15" N; 10° 13' 08.38" E).

Localities in Tunisia from bibliography. No previous records

Other localities in the world. Gulf of Naples ( Lang 1884), coasts of Catalonia ( Novell 2001); North Sea ( Karez 1991; Harms 1993); British coasts ( Howson & Picton, 1997).

Remark. This species was described firstly by Lang (1884) who placed it in the genus Stylochoplana Stimpson, 1857 . Faubel (1983) considered the presence of a single common genital pore a valid criterion to create a new genus Comoplana and made Comoplana agilis the type species of the genus.

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.