Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Class Rhabditophora > Order Polycladida > Suborder Cotylea > Superfamily Euryleptoidea > Family Euryleptidae > Genus Prostheceraeus

Prostheceraeus vittatus (Montagu, 1815)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Prostheceraeus*	Schmarda, 1859	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: planària blanca sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

English: candy striped flatworm sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona

German: Bandplanarie sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee

Norwegian: tigerorm

Spanish, Castillian: planaria blanca; planaria listada

Literature

basis of record	Faubel, A.; Noreña, C. (2001). Turbellaria, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 123-136
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].
additional source	de Kluijver, M.J.; Ingalsuo, S.S.; de Bruyne, R.H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom pp.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK
Biodiversity Heritage Library (49 publications)
GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Tyler, S. (2014). Prostheceraeus vittatus (Montagu, 1815). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:142820