Turbellarians name details
Vortex cavicolens Packard, 1883
483362 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:483362)
uncertain > nomen dubium (nomen dubium)
Species
Vortex Ehrenberg, 1831 accepted as Dalyellia Fleming, 1822
Packard, A. S. (1883). A cave-inhabiting flatworm. <em>The American Naturalist.</em> 17(1): 89–90.
page(s): 89, f. a-c [details]
page(s): 89, f. a-c [details]
Type locality contained in Kentucky
type locality contained in Kentucky [details]
Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2025). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Vortex cavicolens Packard, 1883. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/turbellarians/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=483362 on 2026-08-03
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Packard, A. S. (1883). A cave-inhabiting flatworm. <em>The American Naturalist.</em> 17(1): 89–90.
page(s): 89, f. a-c [details]
additional source Packard, A.S., Jr. (1888). The cave fauna of North America, with remarks on the anatomy of the brain and origin of the blind species. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States 4(1), 1st Mem.:1-156, figs. 1-21, pls. 1-27. [partial photocopy]
page(s): 27 [details]
status source Graff, L. von. (1913). Turbellaria II. Rhabdocoelida. [Das Tierreich, Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen Heft 35/1913]. Berlin, Verlag von R. Friedländer und Sohn, Ausgegeben im Juni 1913., 484 pages. [reprinted 1966, Verlag Von J. Cramer W], available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/883047
page(s): 355; note: According to Graff, could maybe be a species of Phaenocora. [details]
page(s): 89, f. a-c [details]
additional source Packard, A.S., Jr. (1888). The cave fauna of North America, with remarks on the anatomy of the brain and origin of the blind species. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States 4(1), 1st Mem.:1-156, figs. 1-21, pls. 1-27. [partial photocopy]
page(s): 27 [details]
status source Graff, L. von. (1913). Turbellaria II. Rhabdocoelida. [Das Tierreich, Eine Zusammenstellung und Kennzeichnung der rezenten Tierformen Heft 35/1913]. Berlin, Verlag von R. Friedländer und Sohn, Ausgegeben im Juni 1913., 484 pages. [reprinted 1966, Verlag Von J. Cramer W], available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/883047
page(s): 355; note: According to Graff, could maybe be a species of Phaenocora. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
