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Issue: Vol. 3755 No. 3: 22 Jan. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-01-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3755.3.4
Page range: 259–272
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 1

A new genus with six new species of Typhlopolycystidinae Evdonin, 1977 (Platyhelminthes, Kalyptorhynchia, Polycystididae)

Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Campus Diepenbeek, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
PHL University College, Campus Elfde Linie, Gebouw D, Elfde-Liniestraat 23, B-3500 Hasselt, Belgium
Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Campus Diepenbeek, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
Ghent University, Research Unit Nematology, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Campus Diepenbeek, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium Freshwater Biology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Research Group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Campus Diepenbeek, Agoralaan, Gebouw D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
flatworms microturbellaria biodiversity taxonomy Mediterranean Sea Western Atlantic Eastern Australia Galapagos

Abstract

Five new species of the new taxon Brunetorhynchus n. gen. are described: B. deconincki n. sp., B. microstylis n. sp. and B. complicatus n. sp. are from the Mediterranean, B. canariensis n. sp. is from the Canary Island Lanzarote, B. cannoni n. sp. is from the Australian East coast and one species from the Galapagos, formerly described as Limipolycystis spec., is transferred to the new genus as B. dubius n. sp.. As in Limipolycystis, these species have a single stylet, (accessory stylet type II), an accessory secretion vesicle (type II) and a prostate vesicle (type III) in the male atrium, although the latter vesicle is absent in some species. Unlike the species of Limipolycystis, where the seminal receptacle is a sclerotized tubule, the species of the new taxon have a pear-shaped seminal receptacle on the oviduct.