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Acotylea is a suborder of free-living marine turbellarian flatworms in the order
Polycladida The Polycladida represents a highly diverse clade of free-living marine flatworms. They are known from the littoral to the sublittoral zone (extending to the deep hot vents), and many species are common from coral reefs. Only a few species are fo ...
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Description

As currently defined, Acotylea includes polyclads with a Lang's vesicle in the female reproductive system and the male copulatory apparatus directed backwards. When tentacles are present, they are nuchal. The eyespot groups can be nuchal, cerebral, and marginal.


Taxonomy

The internal classification of Acotylea has been unstable, with some genera and families constantly changing place as new molecular and morphological data are analyzed. The current classification is presented below: * Superfamily Discoceloidea ** Family
Discocelidae Acotylea is a suborder of free-living marine turbellarian flatworms in the order Polycladida. Description As currently defined, Acotylea includes polyclads with a Lang's vesicle in the female reproductive system and the male copulatory apparat ...
Laidlaw, 1903 ** Family Ilyplanidae Faubel, 1983 ** Family Cryptocelidae Laidlaw, 1903 ** Family Polyposthiidae Bergendal, 1893 * Superfamily Leptoplanoidea Faubel, 1984 ** Family Candimboididae Faubel, 1983 ** Family Euplanidae Marcus & Marcus, 1966 ** Family Faubelidae Ozdikmen, 2010 ** Family Gnesiocerotidae Marcus and Marcus, 1966 ** Family Leptoplanidae Stimpson, 1857 ** Family Mucroplanidae Faubel, 1983 ** Family Notocomplanidae Litvaitis, Bolaños & Quiroga, 2019 ** Family Notoplanidae Marcus and Marcus, 1966 ** Family Palauidae Faubel, 1983 ** Family Pleioplanidae Faubel, 1983 ** Family Pseudostylochidae Faubel, 1983 ** Family Stylochoplanidae Meixner, 1907 * Superfamily Stylochoidea Stimpson, 1857 ** Family Callioplanidae Hyman, 1953 ** Family Discoprosthididae Faubel, 1983 ** Family
Hoploplanidae Acotylea is a suborder of free-living marine turbellarian flatworms in the order Polycladida. Description As currently defined, Acotylea includes polyclads with a Lang's vesicle in the female reproductive system and the male copulatory apparat ...
Stummer-Traunfels, 1933 ** Family Idioplanidae Dittmann, Cuadrado, Aguado, Noreña & Egger, 2019 ** Family Latocestidae Laidlaw, 1903 ** Family Planoceridae Lang, 1884 ** Family Plehniidae Bock, 1913 ** Family
Stylochidae Stylochidae is a family of Polycladida, polyclad flatworms. It includes the species ''Stylochus zebra'', which usually lives in shells occupied by the hermit crab ''Pagurus pollicaris'', though it can sometimes be found free living on rocks and p ...
Stimpson, 1857 * Not placed in any Superfamily ** Family Anocellidae Quiroga, Bolanos & Litvaitis, 2006 ** Family Apidioplanidae Bock, 1926 ** Family Didangiidae Faubel, 1983 ** Family Enantiidae Graff, 1889 ** Family Limnostylochidae Faubel, 1983 ** Family Stylochocestidae Bock, 1913


See also

*'' Kaburakia excelsa''


References


External links

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2823420 Turbellaria