PLAGIOSTOMIDAE, Graff, 1882

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 : 25

Family PLAGIOSTOMIDAE v. Graff, 1908

Vorticeros auriculatus ( Müller 1784) v. Graff, 1882 Planaria auriculata Müller, 1784: 37 , pl. LXVIII: 16–17. Vorticeros pulchellum Schmidt, 1852: 499 , pl. III: 11. Eurylepta auriculata: Diesing, 1850: 211 . Vorticeros schmidti Hallez, 1879: 11 , 58, 72, 74, 170–173, pl. IV: 10–17.

Material examined

Voucher specimen: sites 7, 9, 10, 12: several specimens, in squash preparation; sagittally sectioned series of a sexually immature specimen.

Geographical distribution. NE Atlantic: Faroe Islands, Ireland (Co. Kerry: Valentia); North Sea: Norway (Bergen), German Bight ( Helgoland); Skagerrak: Sweden (Gullmarfjord); English Channel: England (Plymouth Sound, Yealm estuary); Strait of Dover: France (Côte Boulonnaise: Wimereux); Irish Sea: Isle of Man (Port Erin), North Channel (Firth of Clyde); Mediterranean Sea: France (Villefranche sur mer), Tyrrhenian Sea: Gulf of Naples, Strait of Messina: Sicily (Messina); Adriatic Sea: Italy (Ancona, Lesina, Parenzo, Gulf of Trieste), Croatia (Rovinj) (v. Graff 1913; Jameson 1897; Steinböck 1933b; Southern 1936; Westblad 1956).