Known species of Acoela from the Pacific coast of North America. Abbreviations.--CA, California; OR, Oregon; WA, Washington
Species
Location
References
Childiidae
 
Childia groenlandica (Levinsen, 1879)
CA, WA Hyman 1959, Stricker et al. 1992
Convolutidae
   
Ancylocirrus ornatus Kozloff, 2000
WA Kozloff 2000
Diatomovora amoena Kozloff, 1965 OR, WA
Kozloff 1965
Polychoerus carmelensis Costello & Costello, 1938 CA
Costello & Costello 1938
Rhaphidophallus actuosus Kozloff, 1965 WA, CA
Kozloff 1965, Hooge & Tyler 2003
Haploposthiidae
 
Haplogonaria phyllospadicis Hooge & Tyler 2003 CA
Hooge & Tyler, 2003
Haploposthia erythrocephala Kozloff, 2000 WA Kozloff 2000
Mecynostomidae
 
Eumecynostomum luridum Kozloff, 2000 WA Kozloff 2000
Mecynostomum torquens Kozloff, 2000 WA
Kozloff 2000
Stylomecynostomum bodegensis Hooge & Tyler 2003 CA
Hooge & Tyler, 2003
Otocelididae
   
Notocelis rubidocula Kozloff, 2000 WA Kozloff 2000
Otocelis luteola (Kozloff, 1965) WA
Kozloff 1965
Paratomellidae
 
Paratomella rubra Rieger & Ott, 1971
CA
Hooge & Tyler 2003
Paratomella unichaeta Dörjes, 1966
WA
Dörjes 1966, Kozloff 2000
Paratomella sp.
CA
Hooge 1999
Solenofilomorphidae
 
Myopea sp. WA
Crezée 1975

References

Costello HM & Costello DP 1938. A new species of Polychoerus from the Pacific coast. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11: 148-155.

Crezée M 1975. Monograph of the Solenofilomorphidae (Turbellaria: Acoela). Internationale Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie 60: 769-845.

Dörjes J 1966. Paratomella unichaeta nov. gen. nov. spec., Vertreter einer neuen Familie der Turbellaria Acoela mit asexueller Fortpflanzung durch Paratomie. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven, Sonderband II: 187-200.

Hooge MD & Tyler S 2003. Two new acoels (Acoela, Platyhelminthes) from the central coast of California. Zootaxa 131: 1-14.

Hooge MD 1999. The abundance and horizontal distribution of meiofauna on a northern California Beach.
Pacific Science 53: 305-315.

Hyman LH 1959. Some Turbellaria from the coast of California. American Museum Novittes no. 1943.

Kozloff E 1965. New species of acoel turbellarians from the Pacific coast. Biological Bulletin 1: 151-166.

Kozloff E 2000. A new genus and five new species of acoel flatworms from the Pacific coast of North America, and resolution of some systematic problems in the families Convolutidae and Otocelididae. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 41: 281-293.

Stricker SA, Welford AM, & Morris CA 1992. Somatic cell-oocyte interactions during oogenesis in the acoel flatworm Childia groenlandica. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 21: 57-77.

 

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