Gyratrix hermaphroditus Ehrenberg, 1831

Faubel, A. & Warwick, R. M., 2005, The marine flora and fauna of the Isles of Scilly: Free-living Plathelminthes (‘ Turbellaria’), Journal of Natural History 39 (1), pp. 1-45 : 34-35

Gyratrix hermaphroditus Ehrenberg, 1831

Material examined

Site 3: one specimen, in squash preparation.

Geographical distribution (cosmopolitan). Marine areas: NW Atlantic: USA; NE Atlantic: Ireland (Clare Island: Blacksod Bay); North Sea: Norway (Herdla); Skagerrak: Sweden (Hållö, Bonden), German Bight ( Helgoland); Baltic Sea: Gulf of Finland; CE Atlantic: Madeira; Mediterranean Sea: Gulf of Lion (Étangs); Adriatic Sea: Slovenia; Black Sea: Ukraine (Crimea: Sevastopol); W Indian Ocean: Red Sea, Kenya, Somalia; NE Pacific; SE Pacific; SW Pacific: Australia ( NSW, North Stradbroke Island: Dunwich, Adam’s Beach); Antarctica.

Freshwater areas (European countries given as international country codes): European Palaearctic: A, BG, CH, CZ, D, DK ( Faroe Islands), EE, E, FI, FR, GB, HU, I, IE, LV, MK, NL, N, PL, RO, RU, SE, UA (Crimea: Sevastopol); Nearctic region: New York, Virginia (Norfolk); Neotropical region: Colombia (2580 alt.), Jamaica, Surinam, Brazil; Afro-tropical region: Kenya, Tanzania (Lake Victoria); East Palaearctic region: Siberia (Tomsk, Lake Baikal), China, Japan; Near East region: Caspian Sea, Aral Sea; Oriental Region: Indonesia (Java); Australian region: Australia ( NSW), New Zealand (v. Graff 1913; Nasonov 1924; Southern 1936; Marcus 1946; Ferguson and Jones 1949; Beklemishev 1953; Valkanov 1955; Rixen 1961; Karling 1963; Kraus 1965; Mack-Fira 1968; Young 1976; Den Hartog 1977; Heitkamp 1979; Gamo and Noreña-Janssen 1998; Therriault and Kolasa 1999; Artois and Schockaert 2000).

Section SCHIZORHYNCHIA Meixner, 1938 Family SCHIZORHYNCHIDAE v. Graff, 1905