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  Genus Prostoma

Species P. graecense (+ P. rubrum)

Taxon Information

The Species P. graecense has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from Wisconsin.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Prostoma graecense, [Australasian, Afrotropical, Neotropical, Palearctic] (Sundberg & Gibson, 2008).
• Prostoma sp., Silver Creek in the City of Ripon (Fond du Lac County) [Wisconsin] (Watermolen, 2005).
• Prostoma graecense, This species is widely distributed in the United States, as well as worldwide. (Smith, 2001).
• Prostoma rubum, "Silver Creek, in the city of Ripon (Fond du Lac County)" [Wisconsin] (Browning, 1972).
• Prostoma rubrum, "widely distributed, being found from New England to Florida and westward to Ohio, Nebraska, Washington, and California" (Coe, 1959).

Bibliography

• Sundberg, P. & R. Gibson. 2008. Global diversity of nemerteans (Nemertea) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 61-66. [Available online]
• Watermolen, D.J. 2005. Aquatic and terrestrial flatworm (Platyhelminthes, Turbellaria) and ribbon worm (Nemertea) records from Wisconsin. Research/Management Findings, Wisconsin DNR (55). 8 pp.
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Nemertea (Proboscis worms). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 109-115.
• Browning, R.F. 1972. A record of the freshwater nemertean, Prostoma rubrum, in Wisconsin. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts & Letters 60: 179-180. [Available online]
• Coe, W.R. 1959. Nemertea. [in] W.T. Edmondson (ed.). Ward & Whipple Fresh-Water Biology, 2nd edition: 366-367.