Species Pseudobiceros ferrugineus (Hyman, 1959)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pseudoceros ferrugineus Hyman, L.H. 1959. Some Australian polyclads (Turbellaria). Records of the Australian Museum 15: 1-17.

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 28652 (coll. Stanford team, 20.x.1955), Palau, Micronesia.
• Pseudoceros kentii Graff, 1893.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Newman, L.J. & Cannon, L.R.G. 1994. Pseudoceros and Pseudobiceros (Platyhelminthes, Polycladida, Pseudocerotidae) from eastern Australia and Papua New Guinea. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 37: 205-266 (synonymised Pseudobiceros ferrugineus (Hyman, 1954) and Pseudoceros kentii von Graff, 1893)

Generic Combinations

• Pseudobiceros ferrugineus (Hyman, 1954) [changed combination authority: Faubel, 19XX].
• Pseudobiceros ferrugineus (Hyman, 1959).

Introduction

Originally described by Hyman (1959) as having two male pores, the description of this species was emended by Newman & Cannon (1994) as having only one male pore, but a distinctive, two-chambered prostate.

Newman & Cannon (1994) recognise Pseudoceros kentii as a synonym of Pseudoceros ferrugineus Hyman, 1959; the authors give no justification for their recognition of the later name, rather than P. kentii.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Heron Island, Capricorn Bunker Group, southern Great Barrier Reef, reef crest. Broadhurst Reef, central Great Barrier Reef, reef slope, 15 m (depth). Philippines. See Newman & Cannon (1994).

Exmouth and Coral Bay, Western Australia, Australia. Flores, Indonesia. See Newman & Cannon (1998).

General References

Newman, L.J. & Cannon, L.R.G. 1994. Pseudoceros and Pseudobiceros (Platyhelminthes, Polycladida, Pseudocerotidae) from eastern Australia and Papua New Guinea. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 37: 205-266

Newman, L.J. & Cannon, L.R.G. 1998. Pseudoceros (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from the Indo-Pacific with twelve new species from Australia and Papua New Guinea. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 46: 293-323

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