Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Order Polycladida > Suborder Acotylea > Superfamily Leptoplanoidea > Family Leptoplanidae > Genus Leptoplana

Leptoplana mertensi Claparède, 1861

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: unresolved
Name Status: nom. dub.

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Leptoplana*	Ehrenberg, 1831	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Claparède, É. (1861). Études anatomiques sur les annélides, turbellariés, opalines et grégarines observés dans les Hébrides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d' Histoire Naturelle de Genève. 16(1): 71-164, plates I-VII.
status source	Faubel, A. (1984). The Polycladida, Turbellaria; Proposal and establishment of a new system. Part 2. The Cotylea. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 81: 189-259.

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Citation

Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2025). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Leptoplana mertensi Claparède, 1861. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:416413

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2010-06-29 by Seth Tyler

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