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
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Turbellaria