Planocera pellucida

• Main Authors: Cuadrado, Daniel, Rodríguez, Jorge, Moro, Leopoldo, Grande, Cristina, Noreña, Carolina
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Platyhelminthes; Rhabditophora; Polycladida; Planoceridae; Planocera; Planocera pellucida; Ascension Islands; Pacific; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4562049; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4562049

Planocera pellucida (Mertens, 1833) Figs 1B, 7J Planaria pellucida Mertens, 1833: 8–13, pl. 1 Stylochus pellucidus – Ehrenberg 1836: 67. — Diesing 1850: 216. — Claparède 1861: 143. — Moseley 1877: 23. Planocera pellucida – Örsted 1844: 48. Gnesioceros pellucidus – Diesing 1862: 571. Material examined MADEIRA • 1 spec.; 32°41′18.52″ N, 16°58′57.36″ W (Fig. 1B); 2000; Leopoldo Moro leg.; RCCN. Distribution Atlantic Ocean, between Newfoundland and Ireland (type locality) (Mertens 1833); Pacific Ocean (Graff 1892; Woodworth 1894; Plehn 1896); Canary Islands (De Vera et al. 2009; Cuadrado et al. 2017); Vietnam (Dawydoff 1952); the North Sea (Prudhoe 1982); Japan (Kato 1938); the Mediterranean Sea (Lang 1879, 1884; Riedl 1959; Marquina et al. 2014); pelagic fauna of the Atlantic Ocean (Graff 1892; Plehn 1896); Cape Verde and Ascension islands (Plehn 1896; Laidlaw 1903); New record Madeira. Remarks Planocera pellucida, together with Pseudoceros wirtzi, Pseudoceros cf. maximus and Prostheceraeus giesbrechtii are the three polyclad species currently recorded for Madeira. As can be seen in Fig. 7J. The specimens of Planocera pellucida from Madeira do not differ molecularly from those captured in the Canary Islands. Published as part of Cuadrado, Daniel, Rodríguez, Jorge, Moro, Leopoldo, Grande, Cristina & Noreña, Carolina, 2021, Polycladida (Platyhelminthes, Rhabditophora) from Cape Verde and related regions of Macaronesia, pp. 1-43 in European Journal of Taxonomy 736 on page 31, DOI:10.5852/ejt.2021.736.1249, http://zenodo.org/record/4561525