Paulodora subcontorta (Schockaert, 1982) Artois & Schockaert 1998

• Main Authors: Artois, Tom J., Tessens, Bart S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Platyhelminthes; Rhabditophora; Rhabdocoela; Polycystididae; Paulodora; Paulodora subcontorta; Bird Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6229723; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C687D8FFACFF51FF69E150FC07088D

Paulodora subcontorta (Schockaert, 1982) Artois & Schockaert, 1998 (Fig. 4 C, K) Syn. Polycystis subcontorta Schockaert, 1982 Known distribution . North of Mogadiscio (Hawadli) (Schockaert 1982). New localities in the Indian Ocean . Bird Island (Seychelles): south-east part of the island, coarse sand from a little pool on the reef front (24/12/1992). Desroches Island (Seychelles): a little bit of sand and Halimedia from rocks under the reef (24 m) (07/01/1993). Zanzibar Island (Tanzania): Ulva -like algae and short encrusting algae from rocks and a rocky stair behind the Institute of Marine Sciences (10/08/1995). Material . The material of the original description, including the holotype (now in SMNH). Three animals studied alive, one from each new locality, all of them mounted. Remarks . The record in Kenya by Jouk & De Vocht (1989) refers to another species: P. h a m i f e r n. sp. (see earlier). The prostate stylets type I of the newly-found specimens are 100–145 µm long (= 124, n = 3). This range clearly fits the measurement on the holotype, which has a 126 µm-long stylet (Schockaert 1982). In one of the newly-found specimens, the “vesicles” communicating with the oviducts (see Schockaert 1982) are filled with sperm, thus they function as seminal receptacles. Published as part of Artois, Tom J. & Tessens, Bart S., 2008, Polycystididae (Rhabditophora: Rhabdocoela: Kalyptorhynchia) from the Indian Ocean, with the description of twelve new species, pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 1849 on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.183373