Turbellarians - Neochildia fusca Bush, 1975

Turbellarians taxon details

Neochildia fusca Bush, 1975

AphiaID

158682 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158682)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Neochildia Bush, 1975

Original name

Neochildia fusca Bush, 1975

Environment

marine

Original description

Bush, L.F. (1975). Biology of Neochildia fusca N. Gen., N. Sp. from the Northeastern Coast of the United States (Platyhelminthes: Turbellaria). <em>Biological Bulletin.</em> 148: 35-48., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1540648 [details] Available for editors

Type data

Type locality contained in Massachusetts

type locality contained in Massachusetts [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution geographic range not obtained; has been recorded in the Bay of Fundy

Distribution geographic range not obtained; has been recorded in the Bay of Fundy [details]

Taxonomic citation

Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2025). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Neochildia fusca Bush, 1975. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/turbellarians/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158682 on 2026-08-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-26 14:23:20Z

created

Claus, Simon

2010-06-29 08:36:36Z

checked

Tyler, Seth

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original description Bush, L.F. (1975). Biology of Neochildia fusca N. Gen., N. Sp. from the Northeastern Coast of the United States (Platyhelminthes: Turbellaria). <em>Biological Bulletin.</em> 148: 35-48., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/1540648 [details] Available for editors

additional source van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Diet parasitic on host [details]

Distribution geographic range not obtained; has been recorded in the Bay of Fundy [details]

Habitat intertidal to shallow subtidal [details]

Habitat parasitic [details]

Reproduction hermaphroditic [details]

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Neochildia fusca)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database

From editor or global species database