Family CONVOLUTIDAE Graff, 1905

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• Convolutidae Graff, L. von 1905. Turbellaria I. Acoela. Das Tierreich 23: 34, viii [10-11].

  Type genus:

   Convoluta Orsted, 1843.
• Anaperidae Dörjes, J. 1968. Die Acoela (Turbellaria) der Deutschen Nordseeküste und ein neues system der ordnung. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 6: 56-452 [106].

  Type genus:

   Anaperus Graff, 1911.
• Sagittiferidae Kostenko, A.G. & Mamkaev, Yu.V. 1990. The position of "green convoluts" in the system of acoel turbellarians (Turbellaria, Acoela). 2. Sagittiferidae fam. n. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal 69(7): 5-16 [in Russian, English summary].

  Type genus:

   Sagittifera Kostenko & Mamkaev, 1990.

Introduction

This family is further classified within Crucimusculata within the clade Aberrantospermata Jondelius, Wallberg, Hooge & Raikova, 2011. Approximately 24 genera included with around 111 species (Tyler et al., 2006-2020), with four genera and 5 species recorded from Australia. Many of the remaining genera are also likely to be present in Australia but more work on the group is required to confirm their presence.

General References

Tyler, S., Schilling, S., Hooge, M. & Bush, L.F. (comp.) 2006-2020. Turbellarian taxonomic database. Version 1.7. http://turbellaria.umaine.edu

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