species: Tytthosoceros lizardensis in Lizard Island area: all known taxa (Lizard Island Field Guide)
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Tytthosoceros lizardensis


©Anne Hoggett: Tytthosoceros lizardensis about 3 cm long near mangroves in Lizard Island lagoon

©Anne Hoggett: Tytthosoceros lizardensis about 1 cm long near mangroves in Lizard Island lagoon

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Platyhelminthes
Class Rhabditophora
Order Polycladida
Family Pseudocerotidae
Genus Tytthosoceros
Species Tytthosoceros lizardensis

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Lizard Island Field Guide
Lizard Island area: all known taxa

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Distinguishing features

Mottled in shades of dull green with a thin black submarginal band that is intersected with fine, closely-spaced radial white lines.

Size

  • From 1 cm to 3 cm (Length of specimens at Lizard Island)

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Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution

Local abundance

  • Lizard Island: This species is abundant in shallow water near the mangroves at the end of One Tree Coconut Beach in the lagoon, among sparse seagrass Halodule uninervis.

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References

References that assist with identification

  • Newman, L.J. and L.R.G. Cannon (2003). Marine flatworms: The world of polyclads CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Vic.

Other references

  • Humes, A.G. (1997). Pseudanthessius newmanae, new species (Copepoda: Poecilostomatoida: Pseudanthessiidae) from marine turbellarians in Australia, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 42(1): 227-231. LIRS catalog number 704.
  • Newman, L.J. and L.R.G. Cannon (1996). Bulaceros, new genus, and Tytthosoceros, new genus (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and Papua New Guinea, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 44(2): 479-492. LIRS catalog number 477.