NEW DATA ON INTERSTITIAL NEMERTEANS OF TH E FAMILY OTOTYPHLONEMERTIDAE (ENOPLA, MONOSTILIFERA) FROM THE SEA OF JAPAN

Authors
CHERNYSHEV AV
Citation
Av. Chernyshev, NEW DATA ON INTERSTITIAL NEMERTEANS OF TH E FAMILY OTOTYPHLONEMERTIDAE (ENOPLA, MONOSTILIFERA) FROM THE SEA OF JAPAN, Zoologiceskij zurnal, 77(3), 1998, pp. 266-269
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology
Journal title
Zoologiceskij zurnal → ACNP
ISSN journal
00445134
Volume
77
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
266 - 269
Database
ISI
SICI code
0044-5134(1998)77:3<266:NDOINO>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
Additional data on morphology and ecology of Orotyphlonemertes martyno vi and a description of O. nikolaii sp. n. are presented. In the new s pecies cerebral organs, tactile cirri, adhesive plate and intestinal p ouches are absent, statolith contains 20 granules, middle chamber of p roboscis is very long, stylets are longitudinally sculptured. All spec ies with polygranular statoliths are transferred to the subgenus Noren burgia, Otohelicophora Envall, 1996 is nomen nudum.