Species Pseudoceros jebborum Newman & Cannon, 1994
- Pseudoceros jebborum 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.
Type data:
Holotype QM G210470 (reef slope, 3 m (depth), 1.ii.1993, wholemount), Heron Island, Capricorn Bunker Group, southern Great Barrier Reef [23°27'S 151°55'E].
Paratype(s) QM G210471 (reef slope, 10 m (depth), 6.ii.1993, longitudinal section), Heron Island, Capricorn Bunker Group, southern Great Barrier Reef [23°27'S 151°55'E].
Introduction
This species was described by Newman & Cannon (1994) from material collected from Heron Island, Australia, but was first encountered in Hawaii by Poulter (1987). Poulter did not formally describe this species.
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Coral Bay, Western Australia, Australia. Heron Island, Capricorn Bunker Group, southern Great Barrier Reef, reef slope, 3-10 m (depth). Madang, Papua New Guinea, reef crest, 3 m (depth). Hawaii, as Pseudoceros sp. of Poulter (1987). See Newman & Cannon (1998).
North Heron Island, southern Great Barrier Reef. See Litvaitis et al. (2019).
Madang, Papua New Guinea, reef crest and slope. See Goggin & Newman (1996).
Lizard Island, northern Great Barrier Reef. See Marquina et al. (2015) and Dittman et al. (2019).
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Distribution References
- Dittman, I.L., Cuadrado, D., Aguado, M.T., Noreña, C. & Egger, B. 2019. Polyclad phylogeny persists to be problematic. Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 19: 585–608
- Goggin, C.L. & Newman, L.J. 1996. Use of molecular data to discriminate pseudocerotid turbellarians. Journal of Helminthology 70: 123-126
- Litvaitis, M.K., Bolaños, D.M. & Quiroga, S.Y. 2019. Systematic congruence in Polycladida (Platyhelminthes, Rhabditophora): are DNA and morphology telling the same story? Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186: 865–891 (See supplementary material)
- Marquina, D., Aguado, M.T. & Noreña, C. 2015. New records of Cotylea (Polycladida, Platyhelminthes) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia, with remarks on the distribution of the Pseudoceros Lang, 1884 and Pseudobiceros Faubel, 1984 species of the Indo-Pacific Marine Region. Zootaxa 4019(1): 354–377 [Date published 18 September 2015]
- 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 |