Stenostomidae Explained

Stenostomidae is a family of freshwater catenulid flatworms. It is the most species-rich family of catenulids, with about 70 species described, most of them in the Neotropics.[1]

Catenulids of the family Stenostomidae are characterized by the brain divided into four clearly separated lobes, two anterior and two posterior, which lie near the mouth. The preoral zone contains a group of sensor cells with ciliated pits organized in long precerebral series.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Damborenea . Cristina . Brusa . Francisco . Almagro . Io . Noreña . Carolina . A phylogenetic analysis of Stenostomum and its neotropical congeners, with a description of a new species from the Peruvian Amazon Basin . Invertebrate Systematics . 25 . 2 . 2011 . 155 . 1445-5226 . 10.1071/IS10026. 11336/81148 . free .
  2. Marcus . Ernst . Sôbre microturbellarios do Brasil . Comunicaciones Zoologicas del Museo de Historia Natural Montevideo . 1 . 25 . 1–74+4pl . 1945.

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