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2 November 2021 Description of a new species of Alloioplana (Polycladida: Stylochoplanidae) with an inference on its phylogenetic position in Leptoplanoidea
Yuki Oya, Aoi Tsuyuki, Hiroshi Kajihara
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Abstract

We herein describe a new species of stylochoplanid flatworm, Alloioplana yerii, from Japan. This is the first record of the genus from the West Pacific. Alloioplana yerii is characterized by i) a lack of nuchal tentacles, ii) an oval prostatic vesicle that is smaller than the seminal vesicle, iii) the presence of a common sperm duct, and iv) the presence of an intra-prostatic ejaculatory duct. We provide a partial sequence of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene (712 bp) as a DNA barcode for the species. Our phylogenetic analyses based on concatenated sequences of 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA and of COI suggest that Stylochoplanidae is not monophyletic and that Al. yerii forms a relatively well-supported clade with Echinoplana celerrima (Gnesiocerotidae) and Notoplana sp. (Notoplanidae).

Yuki Oya, Aoi Tsuyuki, and Hiroshi Kajihara "Description of a new species of Alloioplana (Polycladida: Stylochoplanidae) with an inference on its phylogenetic position in Leptoplanoidea," Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 134(1), 306-317, (2 November 2021). https://doi.org/10.2988/0006-324X-134.1.306
Published: 2 November 2021
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KEYWORDS
Acotylea
DNA barcoding
marine flatworm
systematics
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