''Procerodes'' is a genus of marine
triclad
Planarians (triclads) are free-living flatworms of the class Turbellaria, order Tricladida, which includes hundreds of species, found in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial habitats.pp 3., "Planarians (the popular name for the group as a whole ...
s. It is the only genus in the monotypic
family
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Procerodidae and monotypic superfamily Procerodoidea .
[Diesing, 1862 : ''Revision der Turbellarien. Abtheilung: Rhabdocoelen.'' Sitzungsber Math-Naturwiss Classe der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 45 pp. 191-318.]
Ecology
Although it is mainly a marine family, specimens living in freshwater have been reported, mainly from
oceanic islands
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of the
Southern Hemisphere.
[Ball, I. R. 1974. La Faune Terrestre de l'Ile de Saint Hélène: Turbellaria Tricladida. Ann. Mus. Roy. Afr. Centrale, in 8. Zool.]
Species
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Procerodes anatolicus''
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Procerodes australis''
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Procerodes dahli''
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Procerodes dohrni''
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Procerodes lacteus''
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Procerodes littoralis''
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Procerodes lobatus''
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Procerodes pacificus''
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Procerodes plebeius''
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Procerodes variabilis''
References
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Maricola