Martensocelis, Schockaert & Curini-Galletti, 2025

Schockaert, Ernest R. & Curini-Galletti, Marco, 2025, New species of Archimonocelididae Meixner, 1938 (Platyhelminthes, Proseriata) from the Pacific Ocean, with the proposal of three new genera, Zootaxa 5722 (4), pp. 527-542 : 532

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5722.4.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2635BEE8-9DBF-4CCF-945C-FD1644F9AB99

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D38914-FE54-FFCC-FF79-BA85E903DF28

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Plazi

scientific name

Martensocelis
status

gen. nov.

Martensocelis gen. nov.

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Diagnosis: Archimonocelididae with a pair of seminal vesicles, opening separately, terminally to subterminally, in the C-shaped prostate vesicle. The stylet is a highly curved narrow tube with wider proximal funnel-like opening and is surrounded distally by short needles. Female duct moderately muscular with a pre-penial bursal enlargement with or without vagina. Genito-intestinal duct connects the female duct anteriorly to the female pore.

Type species: Martensocelis martensi sp. nov.

Etymology. See species below.

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