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  Genus Limnoposthia

Species L. polonica

Taxon Information

The Species L. polonica has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

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

Literature Records

• Limonoposthia [sic] polonica, (Vila-Farré et al., 2013).
• Limnoposthia polonica, "PA" (Artois et al., 2013).
• Limnoposthia polonica, "Slesinskie lake in the system of Konin lakes... " [Poland] (Faubel & Kolasa, 1978).
• Oligochoerus polonicus, "... in lake s warmed up by inputs from a power station in central Poland..." (Kolosa & Faubel, 1974).

Bibliography

• Vila-Farré, M., M. Álvarez-Presas & J.G. Achatz. 2013. First record of Oligochoerus limnophilus (Acoela, Acoelomorpha) from British waters. Arxius de Miscel-lània Zoològica 11: 153-157. [Available online]
• Artois, T., E. Schockaert & S. Tyler. 2013. World Checklist of Freshwater Turbellaria. World Wide Web electronic publication. 59 pp. [Available online]
• Faubel, A. & J. Kolasa. 1978. On the anatomy and morphology of a freshwater species of Acoela (Turbellaria): Limnoposthia polonica (Kolasa et Faubel, 1974). Bulletin de l'Academie Polonaise des Sciences, Série des sciences biologiques II 26(6): 393-397.
• Kolosa, J. & A. Faubel. 1974. A preliminary description of a freshwater Acoela (Turbellaria): Oligochoerus polonicus nov. spec. Bolletino di Zoologia 41: 81-85. [Available online]

Web Pages

• Encyclopedia of Life
• Fauna Europaea
• The Stylet — Diversity and Systematics of Acoela and Nemertodermatida
• Turbellarian Taxonomic Database