Species Gyratrix hermaphroditus Ehrenberg, 1831

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Regional Maps

• Gyratrix hermaphroditus Ehrenberg, C.G. 1831. Phytozoa turbellaria Africana et Asiatica in Phytozoorum Tabula IV et V delineata. 53-67 pls IV-V in Hemprich, F.G. & Ehrenberg, C.G. (eds). Symbolae physicae, seu icones et descriptiones corporum naturalium novorum aut minus cognitorum quae ex itineribus per Libyam, Aegyptium, Nubiam, Dongalam, Syriam, Arabiam et Habessiniam, pars zoologica II, animalia evertebrata exclusis insectis. Berolina : Officina Academica. [plates published 1828, text 1831].

Introduction

Tessens et al. (2021) demonstrated that Gyratrix hermaphroditus is actually a large cryptic complex of 62 or 78 putative species (dependent on method of species delineation); these putative species exhibit wide variation in their distribution ranges. None of these species were formally described in the paper, although 11 putative species were identified across sampling localities in the Northern Territory, Victoria and South Australia.

General References

Tessens, B., Monnens, M., Backeljau, T., Jordaens, K., Van Steenkiste, N., Breman, F.C., Smeets, K. & Artois, T. 2021. Is ‘everything everywhere’? Unprecedented cryptic diversity in the cosmopolitan flatworm Gyratrix hermaphroditus. Zoologica Scripta 50(6): 837–851

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