On the Calviriidae Martens and Curini-Galletti, 1993 (Platyhelminthes, Proseriata), with the description of three new species

• Published in: Zootaxa
• Main Authors: SCHOCKAERT, ERNEST R., CURINI-GALLETTI, MARCO, DE RIDDER, WOUTER, ARTOIS, TOM
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Mangolia Press 2011
• Subjects: Platyhelminthes; taxonomy; phylogeny; Subantartic; Tasmania; Iceland; The Needles; Needles The
• Online Access: https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.3034.1.2; https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3034.1.2

Three new species of Calviriidae are described, belonging to two new genera: Diskeria gigantea n.g. n.sp., D. tasmanica n.sp. and Paracalviria islandica n.g. n.sp. The species of Diskeria have a copulatory organ with two rings of needles of which the internal ring forms a structure resembling a styl...