Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Class Rhabditophora > Order Seriata > Suborder Proseriata > Infraorder Lithophora > Family Monocelididae > Subfamily Monocelidinae > Genus Pseudomonocelis

Pseudomonocelis ophiocephala (Schmidt, 1861)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pseudomonocelis*		accepted genus name

Species group names

*Monocelis ophiocephala*	Schmidt, 1861	synonym

Literature

original description	Schmidt O. (1861) Untersuchungen über turbellarien von Corfu und Cephalonia Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 11: 10959
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	Ax, P. (1959) Zur systematik, okologie und tiergeographie der Turbellarienfauna in den ponto-kapischen brackwassermeeren Zoologisher Jahrbucher-Abteiling fur Systematik,Geographie und Biologie der Tierre 87: 43-184
additional source	Meixner J. (1943) Uber die Umbildung eiener Turbellarienart nach Einwanderung aus dem Meere ins Susswasser Internationale Revue der gesanten Hydrobiologie 43: 458-468
additional source	Schockaert E.R. & Martens P.M. (1987) Turbellaria from Somalia 4. The genus Pseudomonocelis Meixner, 1943 Monitore Zoologico Italiano 22: 101-115
additional source	Murina, G.-V., 1981. Notes on the biology of some psammophile Turbellaria of the Black Sea. Hydrobiologia, 84: 129-130

Genbank

Taxonomy

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External Links

GenBank (7 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
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Citation

Tyler, S. (2014). Pseudomonocelis ophiocephala (Schmidt, 1861). In: Artois, T.; Schockaert, E. & Tyler, S. (2014) World database of Proseriata and Kalyptorhynchia. 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:143566