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Marine planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida: Maricola) from the western Mediterranean Sea and the Cantabrian coast: new records, one new genus, and immunocytochemistry of the nervous system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Miquel Vila-Farré ,
Ronald Sluys ,
Salvatore D'Aniello ,
Francesc Cebrià ,
Xavier Ferrer  and
Rafael Romero
Miquel Vila-Farré*
Affiliation:
Departament de Genètica, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Ronald Sluys
Affiliation:
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics & Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 94766, 1090 GT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Salvatore D'Aniello
Affiliation:
Departament de Genètica, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Francesc Cebrià
Affiliation:
Departament de Genètica, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Xavier Ferrer
Affiliation:
Departament de Biologia Animal, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Rafael Romero
Affiliation:
Departament de Genètica, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: M. Vila-Farré, Departament de Genètica, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain email: mvilafarre@gmail.com
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Abstract

Marine planarians were collected extensively from the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. As a result we provide new distributional records of six species of marine triclads, including the description of one new genus and species. The study increases substantially our knowledge of the distribution of this group of animals in Spain and reveals that even relatively well studied areas, such as Italy, still yield new species. In addition, we performed immunostaining studies of the nervous system of three of the species, which revealed the detailed organization of the main nerve cords and their branches. In the new species, the lateral nerve branches showed an arrangement that is different from that of the other species.

Keywords

PlatyhelminthesbiogeographytaxonomyCerbussowiaSabussowiaCercyraCamerataProcerodesSpainItaly
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 90 , Issue 2 , March 2010 , pp. 409 - 422
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2009

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