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Procerodes

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Procerodes
Procerodes littoralis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Tricladida
Suborder: Maricola
Superfamily: Procerodoidea
Diesing, 1862
Family: Procerodidae
Diesing, 1862
Genus: Procerodes
Girard, 1850
Synonyms
  • Debeauchampia Benazzi, 1981

Procerodes is a genus of marine triclads. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Procerodidae and monotypic superfamily Procerodoidea .[1]

Ecology

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Although it is mainly a marine family, specimens living in freshwater have been reported, mainly from oceanic islands of the Southern Hemisphere.[2]

Species

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References

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  1. ^ Diesing, 1862 : Revision der Turbellarien. Abtheilung: Rhabdocoelen. Sitzungsber Math-Naturwiss Classe der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien 45 pp. 191-318.
  2. ^ Ball, I. R. 1974. La Faune Terrestre de l'Ile de Saint Hélène: Turbellaria Tricladida. Ann. Mus. Roy. Afr. Centrale, in 8. Zool.