Turbellarians taxon details
Pucelis Marcus, 1947
480044 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:480044)
accepted
Genus
Pucelis evelinae Marcus, 1947 (type by monotypy)
Freemania Hyman, 1953 · unaccepted
Melloplana Faubel, 1983 · unaccepted
Notocomplana Faubel, 1983 · unaccepted > unavailable name
- Species Pucelis acticola (Boone, 1929) Artois & Ramos-Sanchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis celeris (Freeman, 1933) Boyko, 1996
- Species Pucelis chierchiae (Plehn, 1896) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis distincta (Prudhoe, 1982) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis erythrotaenia (Schmarda, 1859) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis evelinae Marcus, 1947
- Species Pucelis ferruginea (Schmarda, 1859) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis gardineri (Laidlaw, 1904) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis hagiyai (Oya & Kajihara, 2017) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis humilis (Stimpson, 1858) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis japonica (Kato, 1937) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis koreana (Kato, 1937) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis lapunda (Du Boys Reymond- Marcus & Marcus, 1968) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis libera (Kato, 1939) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis litoricola (Heath & McGregor, 1912) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis longisaccata (Hyman, 1959) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis martae (Marcus, 1948) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis mexicana (Hyman, 1953) Boyko, 1996
- Species Pucelis microsora (Schmarda, 1859) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis natans (Freeman, 1933) Boyko, 1996
- Species Pucelis otophora (Schmarda, 1859) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis palaoensis (Kato, 1943) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis palta (Marcus, 1954) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis profunda (Oya, Hookabe, Jimi, Furushima & Fujiwara, 2025) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis rugulosa (Hagiya, 1992) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis rupicola (Heath & McGregor, 1912) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis sanguinea (Freeman, 1933) Boyko, 1996
- Species Pucelis sanjuania (Freeman, 1933) Boyko, 1996
- Species Pucelis saxicola (Heath & McGregor, 1912) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis sciophila (Boone, 1929) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis septentrionalis (Kato, 1937) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis sophia (Kato, 1939) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis syntoma (Marcus, 1947) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis tavoyensis (Prudhoe, 1950) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
- Species Pucelis timida (Heath & McGregor, 1912) Artois & Ramos-Sánchez, 2025
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Marcus, E. (1947). Turbellarios Marinhos do Brasil (5). <em>Boletins da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras, Universidade de São Paulo. Zoologia.</em> 12: 99-215., available online at https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2526-4877.bsffclzoologia.1947.125220 [details] Available for editors 
Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2026). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Pucelis Marcus, 1947. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/turbellarians/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=480044 on 2026-09-12
original description
Marcus, E. (1947). Turbellarios Marinhos do Brasil (5). <em>Boletins da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras, Universidade de São Paulo. Zoologia.</em> 12: 99-215., available online at https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2526-4877.bsffclzoologia.1947.125220 [details] Available for editors
status source Artois, T. J.; Ramos-Sánchez, M. (2025). On the validity of Notocomplana Faubel, 1983 (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida), a widely used name within polyclad taxonomy. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5737(2): 297-300., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.2.10 [details] Available for editors
additional source (of Notocomplana Faubel, 1983) López-Márquez, V.; Puente, A.; Miller, J. P.; Gutierrez, A.; Noreña, C. (2025). Exploring the Intricate Web of Biodiversity: Notocomplana (Rhabditophora: Polycladida: Notocomplanidae) Species Networks in the North Pacific Ocean. <em>Zoological Science.</em> 42(3)., available online at https://doi.org/10.2108/zs240053 [details] Available for editors
status source (of Notocomplana Faubel, 1983) Artois, T. J.; Ramos-Sánchez, M. (2025). On the validity of Notocomplana Faubel, 1983 (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida), a widely used name within polyclad taxonomy. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5737(2): 297-300., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.2.10 [details] Available for editors
status source (of Melloplana Faubel, 1983) Litvaitis, M. K.; Bolaños, D. M.; Quiroga, S. Y. (2019). Systematic congruence in Polycladida (Platyhelminthes, Rhabditophora): are DNA and morphology telling the same story?. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 186: 865–891., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz007
page(s): 13, 23 [details] Available for editors
status source Artois, T. J.; Ramos-Sánchez, M. (2025). On the validity of Notocomplana Faubel, 1983 (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida), a widely used name within polyclad taxonomy. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5737(2): 297-300., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.2.10 [details] Available for editors
additional source (of Notocomplana Faubel, 1983) López-Márquez, V.; Puente, A.; Miller, J. P.; Gutierrez, A.; Noreña, C. (2025). Exploring the Intricate Web of Biodiversity: Notocomplana (Rhabditophora: Polycladida: Notocomplanidae) Species Networks in the North Pacific Ocean. <em>Zoological Science.</em> 42(3)., available online at https://doi.org/10.2108/zs240053 [details] Available for editors
status source (of Notocomplana Faubel, 1983) Artois, T. J.; Ramos-Sánchez, M. (2025). On the validity of Notocomplana Faubel, 1983 (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida), a widely used name within polyclad taxonomy. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5737(2): 297-300., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.2.10 [details] Available for editors
status source (of Melloplana Faubel, 1983) Litvaitis, M. K.; Bolaños, D. M.; Quiroga, S. Y. (2019). Systematic congruence in Polycladida (Platyhelminthes, Rhabditophora): are DNA and morphology telling the same story?. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 186: 865–891., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz007
page(s): 13, 23 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Melloplana) (from synonym Melloplana Faubel, 1983)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Notocomplana) (from synonym Notocomplana Faubel, 1983)
To Genbank (from synonym Notocomplana Faubel, 1983)
To Genbank (from synonym Melloplana Faubel, 1983)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Notocomplana Faubel, 1983)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Melloplana Faubel, 1983)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Freemania Hyman, 1953)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Notocomplana) (from synonym Notocomplana Faubel, 1983)
To Genbank (from synonym Notocomplana Faubel, 1983)
To Genbank (from synonym Melloplana Faubel, 1983)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Notocomplana Faubel, 1983)To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Melloplana Faubel, 1983)To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Freemania Hyman, 1953)To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database