Prostoma viperula, Timofeeva, 1912

Kajihara, Hiroshi, 2025, A taxonomic revision of the freshwater monostiliferous hoplonemertean genus Prostoma Dugès, 1828 (Nemertea: Eumonostilifera): a radical solution or an over-lumping?, Zootaxa 5646 (4), pp. 451-500 : 487

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Prostoma viperula
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8. Prostoma viperula

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Description. Up to 20 mm long, about 0.5 mm wide. Extremely graceful nemertean with head weakly demarcated from body; body somewhat thicker than in middle portion, greenish, transparent; cephalic furrows coloured slightly reddish brown. Single, bright white mid-dorsal stripe (glandular) stretching from rear end of head to tail; irregularly shaped white processes laterally branching off from mid-dorsal stripe.

Locality. Passable, among roots of Posidonia (Annex Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 , IX). Quite abundant.

Remarks. Now Tetrastemma viperula ( Timofeev, 1911) .

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