Haplogonaria schillingi Hooge & Tyler, 2015, sp. nov. ...

• Main Authors: Hooge, Matthew D., Tyler, Seth
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Xenacoelomorpha; Acoelomorpha; Acoela; Haploposthiidae; Haplogonaria; Haplogonaria schillingi; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6113937; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6113937

Haplogonaria schillingi sp. nov. (Figs. 1–3) Type material. Holotype. AMNH _IZC 249974, one set of 2-µm-thick serial sagittal sections of epoxy-embedded specimen stained with toluidine blue. Paratype. AMNH _IZC 249975, epoxy-embedded whole mount. Type locality. Reid State Park, Maine, USA (43°47’N, 69°44’W); medium-grained subtidal sediment, June 2003. Other material examined. Living specimens in squeeze preparations from Reid State Park in June 2003 and Crow Neck, Cobscook Bay, Maine, USA (44°52’34.6”N, 67°07’ 35.9W), from medium-grained subtidal sediment at reversing falls in June 2004; 2-µm-thick serial frontal sections of epoxy-embedded specimen stained with toluidine blue; four specimens collected in 1995 from Reid State Park, serially sectioned at 1.5 µm, one frontally and three sagitally, and stained with hematoxylin and eosin; whole mount for fluorescence imaging of musculature. Etymology. Species name in honor of Steve Schilling in recognition of his significant contribution to the Turbellarian ... : Published as part of Hooge, Matthew D. & Tyler, Seth, 2015, Two new acoels (Acoelomorpha) of the genus Haplogonaria from the northwest Atlantic, pp. 111-119 in Zootaxa 4013 (1) on pages 112-115, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/243136 ...