Hofstenioplesia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Prorhynchida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Platyzoa Phylum: Platyhelminthes Subphylum: Rhabditophora Ordo: Prorhynchida

Familia: Prorhynchidae
Genus: Hofstenioplesia
Species (1): H. haswelli

Name

Hofstenioplesia Steinböck & Reisinger, 1924

• Original status: valid genus
• Type species: Prorhynchus haswelli Steinböck & Reisinger, 1924
  • Fixation: monotypy

References

• Steinböck, O. 1966. Die Hofsteniiden (Turbellaria Acoela). Grundsätzliches zur Evolution der Turbellarien. Zeitschrift für zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung, 4: 58–195. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.1966.tb00494.x
• Steinböck, O. & Reisinger, E. 1924. On Prorhynchus putealis Haswell, with a description of a new species of the genus. Quarterly journal of microscopical science 68: 443–451. DOI: 10.1242/jcs.s2-68.271.443 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Percival, E. 1945: The genus Prorhynchus in New Zealand. (Phylum Platyhelminthes, Class Turbellaria.) Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 75: 33–41.
• Timoshkin, O.A. 1991: Turbellaria Lecithoepitheliata: morphology, systematics, phylogeny. Hydrobiologia, 227: 323–332. DOI: 10.1007/BF00027618

Links

• Hofstenioplesia in the World Register of Marine Species