A flatworm (Procerodes littoralis)
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Researched by | Morvan Barnes | Refereed by | Admin |
Authority | (Strøm, 1768) | ||
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Summary
Description
Recorded distribution in Britain and Ireland
Recorded at a few locations off the coasts of Scotland, Anglesey (Wales) and south-west England but may be under recorded.Global distribution
-Habitat
Often found on the smooth undersides of small boulders in gravel or sandy brackish seabeds.Depth range
-Identifying features
- Up to 7 mm in length, 1 mm in width.
- Transverse bands on body are absent.
- Pointed tentacular lobe on either side of the head.
- Two well separated eyes.
- Three diverging stripes on the head.
- Three major branches to the gut, situated amongst multiple yolk glands.
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Bibliography
Cannon, L.R.G. (ed.), 1995. Biology of Turbellaria & some related Flatworms: Proceedings of the VIIth International Symposium on the Biology of the Turbellaria, Abo/ Turku, Finland. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Hayward, P.J. & Ryland, J.S. (ed.) 1995b. Handbook of the marine fauna of North-West Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Howson, C.M. & Picton, B.E., 1997. The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Belfast: Ulster Museum. [Ulster Museum publication, no. 276.]
Datasets
Fenwick, 2018. Aphotomarine. Occurrence dataset http://www.aphotomarine.com/index.html Accessed via NBNAtlas.org on 2018-10-01
NBN (National Biodiversity Network) Atlas. Available from: https://www.nbnatlas.org.
OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System), 2024. Global map of species distribution using gridded data. Available from: Ocean Biogeographic Information System. www.iobis.org. Accessed: 2024-10-10
Suffolk Biodiversity Information Service., 2017. Suffolk Biodiversity Information Service (SBIS) Dataset. Occurrence dataset: https://doi.org/10.15468/ab4vwo accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-10-02.
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Last Updated: 22/05/2008