Pseudobiceros
Pseudobiceros | |
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Pseudobiceros gloriosus on Polycarpa aurata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Order: | Polycladida |
Suborder: | Cotylea |
Family: | Pseudocerotidae |
Genus: | Pseudobiceros Faubel, 1984[1] |
Pseudobiceros is a genus of flatworms. Like all flatworms, Pseudobiceros are hermaphrodites. This particular genus engages in penis fencing. When the "winner" touches its penis to the "skin" of the other, insemination occurs, and the "loser" has to bear the burden of motherhood.[2][3]
Species
according to the World Register of Marine Species,[4] species include:
- Pseudobiceros apricus Newman & Cannon, 1994
- Pseudobiceros bajae (Hyman, 1953)
- Pseudobiceros bedfordi (Laidlaw, 1903)
- Pseudobiceros brogani Newman & Cannon, 1997
- Pseudobiceros caribbensis Bolanos, Quiroga & Litvaitis, 2007
- Pseudobiceros cinereus (Palombi, 1931)
- Pseudobiceros damawan Newman & Cannon, 1994
- Pseudobiceros dendriticus (Prudhoe, 1989)
- Pseudobiceros evelinae (Marcus, 1950)
- Pseudobiceros flavocanthus Newman & Cannon, 1994
- Pseudobiceros flavolineatus (Prudhoe, 1989)
- Pseudobiceros flowersi Newman & Cannon, 1997
- Pseudobiceros fulgor Newman & Cannon, 1994
- Pseudobiceros fulvogriseus (Hyman, 1959)
- Pseudobiceros gardinieri (Laidlaw, 1902)
- Pseudobiceros gloriosus (Newman & Cannon, 1994)
- Pseudobiceros gratus (Kato, 1937)
- Pseudobiceros hancockanus (Collingwood, 1876)[5]
- Pseudobiceros hymanae Newman & Cannon, 1997
- Pseudobiceros izuensis (Kato, 1944)
- Pseudobiceros miniatus (Schmarda, 1859)
- Pseudobiceros nigromarginatus (Yeri & Kaburaki, 1918)
- Pseudobiceros philippinensis (Kaburaki, 1923)
- Pseudobiceros rubrocinctus (Schmarda, 1859)
- Pseudobiceros schmardae Faubel, 1984
- Pseudobiceros splendidus (Lang, 1884)
- Pseudobiceros undulatus (Kelaart, 1858)
- Pseudobiceros viridis (Kelaart, 1858)
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Unidentified Pseudobiceros
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Unidentified Pseudobiceros
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Unidentified Pseudobiceros
References
- ^ Faubel, A. (1984). "The Polycladida, Turbellaria; Proposal and establishment of a new system. Part 2. The Cotylea". Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut. 81: 189–259.
- ^ Michiels, N.K., and L.J. Newman. (1998). Sex and violence in hermaphrodites. Nature 391:647.
- ^ Hermaphrodites duel for manhood, Science News Online. Accessed 14 March 2009.
- ^ http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367782
- ^ Collingwood, Cuthbert (1876). "VI. On thirty-one Species of Marine Planarians, collected partly by the late Dr. Kelaart, F.L.S., at Trincomalee, and partly by Dr. Collingwood, F.L.S., in the Eastern Seas". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series. Zoology. 1 (3): 83–98.
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