Genus Imogine Girard, 1853

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• Imogine Girard, C. 1853. Descriptions of new nemerteans and planarians from the coast of the Carolinas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 6: 365–367 [367].

  Type species:

   Imogene oculiferus Girard, 1853 by original designation.

Introduction

Marcus & Marcus (1968) propose to allocate the species currently treated under Stylochus in two subgenera on the base of their seminal vescicles, a nominate one and Imogine Girard,1853 for the other, as its type species I. oculifera Girard falls in this group. Among the Australian taxa, only S. vigilax Laidlaw in the nominate subgenus, and S. orientalis Bock in the subgenus Imogine are mentioned.
Jennings & Newman (1996) re-elevate Imogine to genus level.
A review of Imogine is presented by Maghsoudlou & Momtazi (2014). This review combines diagnostic features of all known species of Imogine across the Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific. Species of Imogine are important threats to aquaculture (especially of oysters).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

General References

Jennings, K.A. & Newman, L.J. 1996. Four new stylochid flatworms (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) associated with commercial oysters from Moreton Bay, southeast Queensland, Australia. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 44: 493-508 [494]

Maghsoudlou, A. & Momtazi, F. 2014. A new Imogine species (Turbellaria: Polycladida: Stylochidae) associated with rock oysters (Saccostrea cucullata) from the Persian Gulf, with a review of the genus. Zootaxa 3753(4): 364-374 [Date published 8 January, 2014]

Marcus, E. & Marcus, E. 1968. Polycladida from Curaçao and faunistically related regions. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 26: 1-134 [5]

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