Promesostoma maculosum Ax 1956 ...

• Main Authors: Steenkiste, Niels Van, Tessens, Bart, Krznaric, Kathleen, Artois, Tom
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Platyhelminthes; Rhabditophora; Rhabdocoela; Promesostomidae; Promesostoma; Promesostoma maculosum; Willems; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6182183; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6182183

Promesostoma maculosum Ax, 1956 (Fig. 2 C) New locality. Rota, Provincia de Cádiz, Spain (36°38’09”N, 6°23’50”W). Los Corrales: thin layer of very coarse sand in intertidal pools on a rocky cape (11/04/2008). Known distribution. Northeast Atlantic: European Atlantic coast (Ax 1956; Ehlers & Sopott-Ehlers 1989); Bosporus and Sea of Marmara (Ax 1959); Mediterranean: Corsica and Sardinia (Willems 2005 and pers. comm. from Wim Willems). Material. Several individuals studied alive. Five whole mounts. Remarks. Animals are between 0.8– 2 mm (= 1.2 mm; n = 4) long. This species can easily be distinguished from other species of Promesostoma Graff, 1882 because the stylet is curled over 360° in the middle (Fig. 2 C). The stylet of the Spanish specimens is between 364–396 μm long (= 383 µm; n = 5), which is longer than in specimens from other known localities (± 250 µm in the specimens from the French Atlantic coast, Ax 1956; ± 290 µm in the specimens from Corsica, Willems 2005; no measurements given for the ... : Published as part of Steenkiste, Niels Van, Tessens, Bart, Krznaric, Kathleen & Artois, Tom, 2011, Dalytyphloplanida (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela) from Andalusia, Spain, with the description of four new species, pp. 1-29 in Zootaxa 2791 on page 4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201106 ...