Cotylea (worm)

Cotylea
From the left to right of each row, from top to bottom: Pseudobiceros gloriosus (Pseudocerotidae), Eurylepta sp. (Euryleptidae), Pericelis sp. (Periceloidea), Chromoplana sirena (Anonymoidea), Cestoplana sp. (Cestoplanidae), and Lurymare clavocapitata (Prosthiostomidae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Polycladida
Suborder: Cotylea
Lang, 1884
Families

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Cotylea is a suborder of free-living marine turbellarian flatworms in the order Polycladida.[1]

Taxonomy

The following clades are recognized as being included in the suborder Cotylea:[2]

  • Superfamily Boninioidea Dittmann, Cuadrado, Aguado, Noreña & Egger, 2019
    • Family Amyellidae Faubel, 1984
      • Genus Amyella Bock, 1922
      • Genus Chromyella Correa, 1958
    • Family Boniniidae Bock, 1923
      • Genus Boninia Bock, 1923
      • Genus Paraboninia Prudhoe, 1944
      • Genus Traunfelsia Laidlaw, 1906
    • Family Theamatidae Marcus, 1949
      • Genus Theama Marcus, 1949
  • Superfamily Ditremagenioidea Faubel, 1984
  • Superfamily Opisthogenioidea Faubel, 1984
  • Superfamily Pseudocerotoidea Faubel, 1984
    • Family Euryleptididae Faubel, 1984
      • Genus Euryleptides Palombi, 1923
    • Family Laidlawiidae Herzig, 1905
      • Genus Laidlawia Herzig, 1905
    • Family Stylochoididae Bock, 1913
      • Genus Stylochoides Hallez, 1907
    • Family Stylostomidae Dittmann, Cuadrado, Aguado, Noreña & Egger, 2019
  • Family Cestoplanidae Lang, 1884
    • Genus Acestoplana Faubel, 1983
    • Genus Cestoplana Lang, 1884
    • Genus Cestoplanella Faubel, 1983
    • Genus Cestoplanides Faubel, 1983
    • Genus Cestoplanoida Faubel, 1983
    • Genus Eucestoplana Faubel, 1983
  • Family Dicteroidae Faubel, 1984
    • Genus Dicteros Jacubowa, 1906
  • Family Diposthidae Woodworth, 1898
    • Genus Asthenoceros Laidlaw, 1903
    • Genus Diposthus Woodworth, 1898
  • Family Pseudocerotidae Lang, 1884[3]
    • Genus Acanthozoon Collingwood, 1876
    • Genus Bulaceros Newman & Cannon, 1996
    • Genus Monobiceros Faubel, 1984
    • Genus Nymphozoon Hyman, 1959
    • Genus Phrikoceros Newman & Cannon, 1996
    • Genus Pseudobiceros Faubel, 1984
    • Genus Pseudoceros Lang, 1884
    • Genus Thysanozoon Grube, 1840
    • Genus Tytthosoceros Newman & Cannon, 1996
    • Genus Yungia Lang, 1884

References

  1. ^ Rawlinson, Kate A.; Litvaitis, Marian K. (May 2008). "Cotylea (Polycladida): a cladistic analysis of morphology". Invertebrate Biology. 127 (2): 121–138. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7410.2007.00119.x. ISSN 1077-8306.
  2. ^ "World list of turbellarian worms - Cotylea". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
  3. ^ a b Noreña, Carolina; Marquina, Daniel; Perez, Jacinto; Almon, Bruno (2014-04-22). "First records of Cotylea (Polycladida, Platyhelminthes) for the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula". ZooKeys (404): 1–22. doi:10.3897/zookeys.404.7122. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 4023257. PMID 24843268.
  4. ^ Marquina, Daniel; Aguado, M. Teresa; Noreña, Carolina (2015-09-18). "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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4019.1.14. ISSN 1175-5334.
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