World list of turbellarian worms

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WoRMS taxon details

Polycladida

AphiaID

2853 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2853)

Classification

Authority

Lang, 1884 [viz. Faubel, 1983/1984]

Status

accepted

Rank

Order

Parent

Rhabditophora

Direct children (3)

Ordering

Alphabetically
By status

Children Display

direct main ranks all

Suborder Acotylea
Suborder Cotylea
Suborder Acotylina accepted as Acotylea

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2025). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Polycladida. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2853 on 2025-07-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2010-06-15 07:03:37Z

changed

Tyler, Seth

2015-09-18 06:52:49Z

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Artois, Tom

2019-01-22 21:17:12Z

changed

Artois, Tom

2022-03-01 11:51:21Z

changed

Tyler, Seth

Licensing

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Nomenclature

basis of record Schockaert, E. R.; Jouk, P. E. H.; Martens, P. M. (1989). Free-living Plathelminthes from the Belgian coast and adjacent areas. In: Wouters, K.; Baert, L. (Ed.) (1989). Proceedings of the Symposium Invertebrates of Belgium. pp. 19-25. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record Faubel, A. (1984). The Polycladida, Turbellaria; Proposal and establishment of a new system. Part 2. The Cotylea. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 81: 189-259. [details] Available for editors

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basis of record Faubel, A. (1983). The Polycladida, Turbellaria - Proposal and estalishment of a new system Part I. The Acotylea. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 80: 17-121. [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomy

taxonomy source Bahia, J.; Padula, V.; Schrödl, M. (2017). Polycladida phylogeny and evolution: integrating evidence from 28S rDNA and morphology. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 17(3): 653-678., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-017-0327-5 [details] Available for editors

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status source Dittmann, I. L.; Cuadrado, D.; Aguado, M. T.; Noreña, C.; Egger, B. (2019). Polyclad phylogeny persists to be problematic. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 19(4): 585-608., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-019-00415-1 [details] Available for editors

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Other

additional source Aguado, M. T.; Noreña, C.; Alcaraz, L.; Marquina, D.; Brusa, F.; Damborenea, C.; Almon, B.; Bleidorn, C.; Grande, C. (2017). Phylogeny of Polycladida (Platyhelminthes) based on mtDNA data. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 17(4): 767-778., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320044928_Phylogeny_of_Polycladida_Platyhelminthes_based_on_mtDNA_data [details]

additional source Kenny, N. J.; Noreña, C.; Damborenea, C.; Grande, C. (2018). Probing recalcitrant problems in polyclad evolution and systematics with novel mitochondrial genome resources. Genomics. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2018.02.009 [details]

additional source Litvaitis, M. K.; Bolaños, D. M.; Quiroga, S. Y. (2019). Systematic congruence in Polycladida (Platyhelminthes, Rhabditophora): are DNA and morphology telling the same story?. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz007 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Dittmann, I. L.; Cuadrado, D.; Aguado, M. T.; Noreña, C.; Egger, B. (2019). Polyclad phylogeny persists to be problematic. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 19(4): 585-608., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-019-00415-1 [details] Available for editors

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Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From editor or global species database

Classification The classification used here is a compromise between the more traditional taxonomy of Neodermata vs. the turbellarians. Yet it reflects the fact that Neodermata is within free-living flatworms (i.e. turbellaria are paraphyletic). It mentions all traditional taxa that are found in phylogenetic studies (e.g. Laumer et al., 2015). Many of the "in-between" higher level taxa (such as Trepaxonemata etc.) are no longer in WoRMS (probably more user friendly that way). This also means an asymmetry between turbellarians (nine ordines) and Neodermata (superclass with three classes). [details]

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