Species Pseudoceros irretitus Newman & Cannon, 1998

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pseudoceros irretitus 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.

  Type data:

   Holotype QM G210849 (under rubble, reef crest, 14.vi.1992, wholemount), One Tree Island, Capricorn Bunker Group, southern Great Barrier Reef [23°30'S 151°05'E].
  Paratype(s) QM G210848, 928-9, 211085 (under rubble, reef crest, wholemount and longitudinal sections), Heron Island and One Tree Island, Capricorn Bunker Group, southern Great Barrier Reef [23°27'S 151°55'E; 23°30'S 152°05'E].

 

Introduction

Newman & Cannon (1998) report that P. irretitus is often found in association with coralline algae or burgandy-coloured colonial ascidians; they believed that the colouration of this species makes it cryptic.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Heron Island, Capricorn Bunker Group, southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. See Litvaitis & Newman (2001) & Litvaitis et al. (2019).

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

Distribution References

General References

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
20-May-2023	RHABDITOPHORA Ehlers, 1985	12-Apr-2023	MODIFIED	Dr Nicholas Wee (QM)
	"TURBELLARIA"	02-Aug-2012	ADDED	Dr Kathryn Hall