Turbellarians taxon details
Luriculus castor (Sterrer & Rieger, 1990) Faubel, Rohde & Watson, 1994
480753 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:480753)
accepted
Species
Lurus castor Sterrer & Rieger, 1990 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Lurus castor Sterrer & Rieger, 1990) Sterrer, W.; Rieger, R. M. (1990). New species of the statocyst-bearing marine dalyellioid genus Lurus Marcus (Luridae nov. fam., Turbellaria-Rhabdocoela). <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 31: 485-500. [details] Available for editors 
Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2024). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Luriculus castor (Sterrer & Rieger, 1990) Faubel, Rohde & Watson, 1994. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/turbellarians/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=480753 on 2026-07-15
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(of Lurus castor Sterrer & Rieger, 1990) Sterrer, W.; Rieger, R. M. (1990). New species of the statocyst-bearing marine dalyellioid genus Lurus Marcus (Luridae nov. fam., Turbellaria-Rhabdocoela). <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 31: 485-500. [details] Available for editors 
new combination reference Faubel, A.; Rohde, K.; Watson, N. A. (1994). Sandy beach meiofauna of Eastern Australia (Southern Queensland and New South Wales). II. Luriculus australiensis, gen. et sp. nov. (Luridae : Dalyelliida : Platyhelminthes). <em>Invertebrate Taxononomy.</em> 8: 1009-1015., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/it9941009 [details] Available for editors
new combination reference Faubel, A.; Rohde, K.; Watson, N. A. (1994). Sandy beach meiofauna of Eastern Australia (Southern Queensland and New South Wales). II. Luriculus australiensis, gen. et sp. nov. (Luridae : Dalyelliida : Platyhelminthes). <em>Invertebrate Taxononomy.</em> 8: 1009-1015., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/it9941009 [details] Available for editors
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality