Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 442 No. 1: 25 Feb. 2004
Type: Article
Published: 2004-02-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.442.1.1
Page range: 1–24
Abstract views: 45
PDF downloaded: 18

New acoels (Acoela, Acoelomorpha) from North Carolina

Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Maine, 5751 Murray Hall, Orono, ME, 04469-5751, USA
Department of Biology, Winthrop College, 202 Life Science Building, Rock Hill, SC 29733, USA
Platyhelminthes Acoelomorpha meiofauna turbellarians Anaperus Diopisthoporus Conaperta Pseudohaplogonaria Kuma Proporus

Abstract

From a survey of interstitial acoel flatworms at Lockwoods Folly Inlet, Oak Island, North Carolina, the new species Anaperus singularis sp. nov. (Anaperidae), Diopisthoporus lofolitis sp. nov. (Diopisthoporidae), Conaperta earnhardti sp. nov. (Convolutidae), Kuma flava sp. nov. (Haploposthiidae), Pseudohaplogonaria cerasina sp. nov. (Haploposthiidae), and Proporus carolinensis sp. nov. are described. Seven previously described acoel species and one nemertodermatid species were also collected from Lockwoods Folly, these were: Diopisthoporus gymnopharyngeus, Endocincta punctata, Neochildia fusca, Parahaploposthia thiophilus, Paratomella rubra, Polychoerus caudatus, Pseudaphanostoma smithrii, and Flagellophora apelti. A previously described species, Anaperus trifurcatus (Anaperidae) is transferred to the genus Amphiscolops (Convolutidae).

References

  1. Beltagi, S. (1983) Anaperus trifurcatus nov. sp. (Archoophora: Anaperidae): A new species of acoelan Turbellaria from the Red Sea. Journal of the Faculty of Marine Science Jeddah, 3, 49–71.

    Crezée, M. (1975) Monograph of the Solenofilomorphidae (Turbellaria: Acoela). Internationale Revue gesamten Hydrobiologie, 60, 769–845.

    Crezée, M. & Tyler S. (1976) Hesiolicium gen. n. (Turbellaria, Acoela) and observations on its ultrastructure. Zoologica Scripta, 5, 207–216.

    Doe, D.A. (1981) Comparative ultrastructure of the pharynx simplex in Turbellaria. Zoomorphology, 97, 133– 193.

    Dörjes, J. (1968) Die Acoela (Turbellaria) der Deutschen Nordseeküste und ein neues System der Ordnung. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung, 6, 56–452.

    Faubel, A. (1976) Interstitielle Acoela (Turbellaria) aus dem Litoral der nordfriesischen Inseln Sylt und Amrum (Nordsee). Mitteilungen des hamburgischen zoologischen Museums und Instituts, 73, 17–56.

    Fegley, S.R., Smith, J.P.S. & Rieger, R.M. (1984) Parahaploposthia thiophilus sp. n. and the use of living specimens in identification of acoel turbellarians. Zoologica Scripta, 13, 1–8.

    Giberson, R.T. & Demaree Jr., R.S. (1995) Microwave fixation: understanding the variables to achieve rapid reproducible results. Microscopy Research and Techniques, 32, 246–254.

    Hooge, M.D. (2001) Evolution of body-wall musculature in the Platyhelminthes (Acoela, Catenulida, Rhabditophora). Journal of Morphology, 249, 171–194.

    Hooge, M.D. & Tyler S. (2003) Acoels (Platyhelminthes, Acoela) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Meiofauna Marina, 12, 7–36.

    Mark, E.L. (1892) Polychoerus caudatus, nov. gen. et nov. spec. In: Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstage Rudolf Leuckarts (Ed), Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig, pp. 298–310.

    Rieger, R.M., Salvenmoser, W., Legniti, A., & Tyler, S. (1994) Phalloidin-rhodamine preparations of Macrostomum hystricinum marinum (Plathelminthes): morphology and postembryonic development of the musculature, Zoomorphology, 114, 133–147.

    Rieger, R.M., Tyler, S., Smith, J.P.S. III, & Rieger, G.E. (1991) Platyhelminthes: Turbellaria. In: Harrison, F.W. & Bogitsh, B.J. (Eds) Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates. Vol. 3: Platyhelminthes and Nemertinea, Wiley-Liss, New York, pp. 7–140.

    Smith, J.P.S. (1981) Fine-structural anatomy of the parenchyma in the Acoela and Nemertodermatida (Turbellaria). Ph.D. Thesis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

    Smith, J.P.S. & Tyler, S. (1984) Serial sectioning and staining of resin-embedded material for light microscopy: recommended procedures for micrometazoans. Mikroskopie, 41, 259–270.

    Smith, J.P.S. & Tyler, S. (1985) The acoel turbellarians: kingpins of metazoan evolution or a specialized offshoot? In: Conway-Morris, S., George, J.D., Gibson, R. & Platt, H.M. (Eds) The Origins and Relationships of Lower Invertebrates, Clarendon Press, Oxford, pp. 123–142.

    Sterrer, W. (1971) Gnathostomulida: problems and procedures. In: Hulings, N.C. (Ed) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Meiofauna. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 76, 9–15.

    Tyler, S. (1973) An adhesive function for modified cilia in an interstitial turbellarian. Acta Zoologica, 54, 139– 151.

    Winsor, L. (1990) Marine Turbellaria (Acoela) from north Queensland. Memoirs of the Queens-land Museum. 28, 785–800.