New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts
Typhloplanoida (Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela) from New Caledonia
and eastern Australia, with the description of six new taxa
W. R. Willems1
T. J. Artois1
T. Backeljau2
E. R. Schockaert1
1Limburgs Universitair
Centrum (LUC)
SBG Department, Centre for Environmental Sciences
Research Group Biodiversity, Phylogeny and Population Studies
University Campus, Building D
B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
wim.willems@luc.ac.be
2Royal Belgian Institute of
Natural Sciences
Invertebrates Department
Vautierstraat 29
B-1000 Brussel, Belgium
Abstract Thirteen species of Typhloplanoida from
the Australian east coast and New Caledonia are reported, six of them
new to science. Three of these new species are representatives of the
Promesostomidae: Coronhelmis cuypersi new species,
Coronhelmis novaecaledoniae new species, and Kymocarens
kanakorum new species. Austradenopharynx reynaertsi new
genus and species is a member of the Solenopharyngidae. Two species are
placed within the Typhloplanidae: Kaitalugia lydieae new genus
and species and K. falcata new species. Furthermore, new
localities are given for Messoplana minuta, known from the
Weddell Sea, Brinkmanniella palmata, occurring on the North
American Pacific coast, the Swedish west coast and in the Black and
Mediterranean Seas, Ceratopera axi, a cosmopolitan species, and
Vauclusia conica and Pilamonila bimascula, two
Australian species. For the sake of completeness, two more species of
which insufficient material is available, are mentioned. A complete
species list of all marine Typhloplanoida found in the region is given.
Keywords systematics; taxonomy; biodiversity;
“Turbellaria”; Promesostomidae; Solenopharyngidae; Trigonostomidae;
Typhloplanidae; Australia; New Caledonia
Z04028; Received 5 August 2004; accepted 9 December 2004; Online
publication date 13 May 2005
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2005, Vol. 32: 79–98
0301–4223/05/3202–0079 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2005
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