Hoploplana Laidlaw 1902, n. sp. ...

• Main Authors: Noreña, Carolina, Rodríguez, Jorge, Pérez, Jacinto, Almon, Bruno
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Platyhelminthes; Rhabditophora; Polycladida; Hoploplanidae; Hoploplana; Bello; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5664411; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5664411

Hoploplana Laidlaw, 1902 Hoploplana elisabelloi n. sp. Figure 2 Material examined. Three specimens were captured in Ría de Arousa, Galicia, Spain. One from the Isle of Rúa (08/10/2011), 42°32.985'N; 8°56.470'W, another on an algae stalk from “O Camouco” (25/08/2013), 42º33.321'N; 08º58.019'W, and the last one between mussels from a dock of the Yacht Club of Ribeira (21/12/2012), 42° 33.776'N / 08° 59.339'W. Holotype. One sagittally sectioned specimen stained with Azan and deposited in the Invertebrate Collections of the MNCN; Cat. No. MNCN 4.01/ 1096 to 1117 (22 slides). Type locality. Isle of Rúa, Ría de Arousa, Galicia, Spain. Depth: 12 metres usually over bryozoans (specifically Membranipora membranacea). Etymology. The specific name is dedicated to the late Galician biologist Elisa Bello; an outstanding person and best friend of the first author, who left us prematurely. Description. Oval-rounded worms, holotype 15 mm long and 12 mm wide. The another two specimens from the same size. Colouration, ... : Published as part of Noreña, Carolina, Rodríguez, Jorge, Pérez, Jacinto & Almon, Bruno, 2015, New Acotylea (Polycladida, Platyhelminthes) from the east coast of the North Atlantic Ocean with special mention of the Iberian littoral, pp. 157-172 in Zootaxa 4039 (1) on pages 158-160, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4039.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/233785 ...