Turbellarians name details
Mesostomum flabelliferum Levinsen, 1879
485799 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:485799)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
Mesostomum accepted as Mesostoma Dugès, 1830
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Levinsen, G.M.R. (1879). Bidrag til Kundskab om Grønlands Turbellariefauna. <em>Vidensk. Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. i. Kjobenhavn 1879-1880.</em> 165-204. With one table.
page(s): 175-177, Pl. 3, f. 6-10 [details]
page(s): 175-177, Pl. 3, f. 6-10 [details]
Taxonomic remark Graff (1882) considers this species to be identical to Proxenetes flabellifer Jensen, 1878. Den Hartog (1964: p. 403)...
Taxonomic remark Graff (1882) considers this species to be identical to Proxenetes flabellifer Jensen, 1878. Den Hartog (1964: p. 403) points that to be a mistake, and coins a new species name for Levinsen's species. This, however, is a wrong nomenclatural action according to the rules of the code, as both species are in different genera. Hence the name "Ceratopera levinsini'" should be replaced by "Ceratopera flabellifera". [details]
Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2025). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Mesostomum flabelliferum Levinsen, 1879. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/turbellarians/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=485799 on 2026-08-21
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Levinsen, G.M.R. (1879). Bidrag til Kundskab om Grønlands Turbellariefauna. <em>Vidensk. Meddel. fra den naturh. Foren. i. Kjobenhavn 1879-1880.</em> 165-204. With one table.
page(s): 175-177, Pl. 3, f. 6-10 [details]
taxonomy source Graff, L., von. (1882). Monographie der Turbellarien 1. Rhabdocoelida. <em>[Book].</em> 1-442, Verlag Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig., available online at https://books.google.com/books/about/Monographie_der_Turbellarien.html?id=LT0hAQAAMAAJ
page(s): 277 [details]
page(s): 175-177, Pl. 3, f. 6-10 [details]
taxonomy source Graff, L., von. (1882). Monographie der Turbellarien 1. Rhabdocoelida. <em>[Book].</em> 1-442, Verlag Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig., available online at https://books.google.com/books/about/Monographie_der_Turbellarien.html?id=LT0hAQAAMAAJ
page(s): 277 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Taxonomic remark Graff (1882) considers this species to be identical to Proxenetes flabellifer Jensen, 1878. Den Hartog (1964: p. 403) points that to be a mistake, and coins a new species name for Levinsen's species. This, however, is a wrong nomenclatural action according to the rules of the code, as both species are in different genera. Hence the name "Ceratopera levinsini'" should be replaced by "Ceratopera flabellifera". [details]
