Diposthidae Woodworth, 1898

Rodríguez, Jorge, Hutchings, Pat A. & Williamson, Jane E., 2021, Biodiversity of intertidal marine flatworms (Polycladida, Platyhelminthes) in southeastern Australia, Zootaxa 5024 (1), pp. 1-63 : 47

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scientific name	Diposthidae Woodworth, 1898
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Family Diposthidae Woodworth, 1898

Genus Diposthus Woodworth, 1898

Diposthus Woodworth, 1898: 64–66 , figs 6–11.

Diagnosis (after Faubel 1984): Diposthidae with cerebral and tentacular eye-spots. Sucker lacking. Tentacles present. Male copulatory complex directed perpendicularly; without true seminal vesicle but spermiducal bulbs present: penis papillate. Uterine vesicles probably present.

Type species: Diposthus corallicola Woodworth, 1898 .

References

Faubel, A. (1984) The Polycladida, Turbellaria; Proposal and establishment of a new system. Part II. The Cotylea. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 81, 189 - 259.

Woodworth, W. M. (1898) Some Planarians from the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Museum of Comparative Zoology, 32 (4), 63 - 67.